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RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA 



SERIES. 



City of Minneapolis, 



A Review of Her Growing Industries and Commercial Development, 

Historical and Descriptive. 

Prominent Places and People and Local Reminiscences. For use of 

the Buyer, Shipper, Tourist, Investor and all others interested 

in the growth and advancement of our City. 



FOR POPULAR DISTRIBUTION. 

ILLUSTRATED. 



MINNEAPOLIS. 

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T^E CITY OF jVIIJ^J^&APOblS. 



A GREAT MODERN CITY. 

Minneapolis stands conspicuous among the great cities of the modern world. She has grown more 
rapidly than Chicago and more substantially than San Francisco. Her commerce vies with her manu- 
factures in e.xtent and importance. The metropolis of the great Northwest, the receiving and 
distributing center of an empire capable of infinite development, she presents the picture of a 
complex modern municipality possessing all the instruments of production, all the facilities of distribu- 
tion, and all the intellectual and moral agencies characteristic of American civilization. She is proud 
of her matchless record and conscious of her present greatness and her still greater future. She is the 
wonder of the continent, and the queen among American cities. 

ADVANTAGES OF SITUATION. 

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, Minn. The city is situated on both sides of 
the Mississippi River, at the Falls of St. Anthony, and is about eight miles west of St. Paul, as the crow 
flies, and ten miles by water. 

The Falls of St. Anthony, those stupendous engines of nature, lie in the very heart of the city, 
inviting man to utilize freely their gigantic power and almost limitless possibilities. These falls 
were discovered by Louis Hennepin and Picard du Guy, in October, 1680, and Hennepin named them 
in honor of his patron saint — Anthony of Padua. Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike, on his first expedition up 
the river, in 1805, visited the falls, and in 1817 Major Stephen L. Long, a distinguished engineer, 
ascended the river on another government expedition, and in his report described the falls as the most 
interesting and magnificent he had ever witnessed. 

The present site of Minneapolis was principally within the reservation lands of Fort Snelling, 
which the government acquired by the treaty which Lieut. Pike made with the Sioux band of Lidians, 
for the United States. During the time the Fort Snelling buildings were being erected. Major 
Russell, the quarter-master, in order to procure the necessary sawed lumber for their completion, had 
built a small saw-mill on the site of the great flour-milling district. After the treaty with the Indians in 
1837, all the lands east of the Mississippi River were ceded to the United States, and preparations were 
at once made by certain parties to secure claims on the east bank of the river, so as to command 



G RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

the water-power. One of these was Frankhn Steele, a Pennsylvanian of revohitionary ancestry, who, 
during the year of the treaty, visited the falls, made a careful survey of the land on the east side, and 
selected the spot he desired, but could not occupy or claim it, as no occupation or claim would be 
valid until after the ratification of the treaty. 

BFX.INNINGS OF CIVILIZATION. 

The first real estate transfer in Minneapolis occurred in 1838. In the fall of that year there were 
-only two houses at the falls, one being the old government house, built in 1822, on the west side, and 
the other Mr. Steele's log house, which stood on the east side, and for some years after this, all the real 
■estate operations were confined to St. Anthony, on the east side of the river. In 1845, the settlement 
•contained a scattered and mixed population of about fifty persons, but the most valuable portion of the 
property, including the falls, belonged to Mr. Steele. In 1847 Charles Wilson arrived and settled in 
St. Anthony, and in June, of the same year, came Wm. A. Cheever, and through his negotiation a sale 
was made by Steele to Caleb Gushing and other eastern parties, of his nine-tenths interest in'the water- 
power of the falls, they paying him $12,000 therefor. Thus, then, was formed the nucleus of the world's 
great milling center. 

The first sale of these lands by the government was made in 1843, when Mr. Steele perfected his 
title to his property by paying therefor $1.25 per acre. During this year Mr. Steele completed his little 
saw-mill, it being the first one erected on the east side of the river. During 1847 the settlement increased 
materially in population, many settlers coming and bringing their families. R. P. Russell and C. A. 
Tuttle laid the foundation of mercantile greatness by starting asmall store in Steele's log-house. In 1848 
Mr. Cheever platted his town on the tract below the University, which is still frequently referred to as 
"Cheevertown. " The first marriage in St. Anthony was in October, 1848, being that of Mr. and Mjs. 
Russell, and the first death occurred during the same year. 

EARLY GROWTH. 

When the Territory of Minnesota was organized, in 1849, Minneapolis made a struggle to secure 
the capital. It failed, but through a compromise, got the State University. In the same year a school 
was established, also a post-office, and a social or reading society was formed, they having gathered 
together a library of two hundred volumes, and the survey of the town was made by ex-Governor Mar- 
shall ; and the real growth of St. Anthony dates from this year. Mr. Steele, during this year, started up 
two more saws, and Anson Northrup began the erection of the St. Charles Hotel. Rev. E. D. Neill 
conducted services every other Sabbath in the school-house, and lectures were occasionally given there. 
The Territory of Minnesota having just been organized. Judge Meeker held the first court in the house 
of Mr. Bean, on the west bank of the river, opposite the falls, the old government saw-mill being utilized 
for the accommodation of the grand jury, of which Mr. Steele was foreman. 

During the first session of the Territorial Legislature, in 1849, ^ bill was introduced by the St. Paul 
members to fix the capital permanently at St. Paul, which was strongly opposed by ex-Governor Mar- 
shall, who was then a resident of St. Anthony and a representative from that district. He strongly 
urged that St. Anthony should be the Capital, and urged its removal to that place. It was a drawn 
battle — the bill was defeated, but no place definitely settled upon. 

In the spring of 1849 Willoughby and Powers commenced running the first stage ever run in Min- 
nesota, between the villages of St. Paul and St. Anthony. In 1850 a church was built, and on 
May I, 1851, the first newspaper, T/ir St. Antlwny Express, made its appearance, Judge Isaac Atwater 
being its first editor. Up to 1847, the river could not be crossed except by fording at low water on the 
ledge below Nicollet Island, but a ferry was established near the site of the present suspension bridge. 



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from the island to tlie west bank. In 1854, a company, with Franklin Steele and H. T. Wells as principals, 
undertook the erection of a suspension bridge, and completed it in eight months, and on July 4, 1855, 
the first team was driven across it. It was a great event and a marvel of enterprise for those days. 
This structure was the first bridge built across the Mississippi River at any point. 




On Nicollet Avenue. 



HOW THE NAME WAS CHOSEN. 

i^y i^ss there had been developed a very respectable little village, though devoid of any striking 
features to distinguish it from scores of others scattered over the great Northwest. As has been stated, 
the original city was on the east side of the river, and was not Minneapolis, but St. Anthony. It was 
incorporated in i860. After the building of the bridge the march of civilization began on the west bank 
of the river. There had been a straggling colony here for years. A school house had been opened in 



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1852 and a church was soon established. The name first given to this new settlement was "West St. 
Anthony" — sometimes it was called "All Saints"; then "Lowell" was adopted, but subsequently changed 
to "Albion." Finally, some one, in the Sf. Anthotiy Express, suggested "Minneapolis," a compound 
of the Sioux Minne (water) and the Greek polis (city). This name was adopted, and soon became 
familiar to all. In 1853 the reservation was reduced, so that what is now known as Minnehaha Creek 
became its northern limit. A land office was opened in 1854, and, by an act of Congress, the land was 
permitted to be taken by actual holders on pre-emption claims at the government price. Claims were 
proved up in the spring of 1855, ^"^ova which time the local record titles of Mmneapolis run. Minneapo- 
lis, which had been informally organized in 1856, was incorporated under a town government in 1858, 
and as a city in 1867. In 1872 St. Anthony was incorporated in the Minneapolis municipality, and 
together they have progressed with rapid strides to the proud position of the present metropolis. 

INCREASE IN POPULATION. 

To comprehend the magnitude of the growth of Minneapolis is almost beyond the power of the 
average imagination. Some idea of the present proportions and importance of the city may be arrived 
at when it is learned from the census reports that eight years ago there were but fifty-seven cities in the 
world with over 200,000 inhabitants, and only ten in the United States containing that population. In 
1870 this country contained 107 cities larger than Minneapolis; in ten years this city outstripped 
seventy-two of these, and stood in a list of thirty-seven cities boasting of 46,000 inhabitants and over. 
This was considered a marvelous record and astonished the world. But the most wonderful epoch of 
the city was yet to come. During the twenty years after MinneapoUs had reached 5,000 — 1860 to 1880 
— the city doubled its population once in every five years and two months. During the ensuing seven 
years, however, it doubled population twice, or once every three and one-half years. At the end of this 
period the city contained 160,000 inhabitants, and to-day, with a population of 215,000, stands four- 
teenth on the list of American cities, and ranges between eighth and tenth in commercial importance, 
according to clearing house reports. The early growth of the city was slow and ordinary; that of 
the decade, 1870-1880, was extraordinary; that of the last six or seven years has been simply phenome- 
nal. The figures themselves tell the story in the briefest space : 

50 

2.200 

5,826 

S.ioi 

13,066 

32,493 

. 46,887 

- - - - 129,200 

- 170,000 

200,000 

JIATERIAI, WEALTH. 

But the increase of population of a city, unless attended by a proportionate increase of those 
branches of industry and commerce which reach out to the surrounding country and gather in the 
wealth, therewith enriching and solidifying it, is no true criterion of desirable growth and normal 
development. Have the other essentials and progress been present or wanting? The best evidence 
on this subject is the following compact showing of comparative figures for three years : 



Population in 


184s, - 


Population in 


1850, 


Population in 


i860, 


Population ii 


1865, 


Population in 


1870, - 


Population in 


1875, 


Population in 


1880, - 


Population in 


1885, 


Population in 


1887, - 


Population in 


1888, 


Population in 


1889, - 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 



THREE YEARS OF PROGRESS 



Building improvements, 
Manufactured products, 



1S87, 
1 888, 



Wholesale trade, 1886, 
" 1887, 
" 18S8, 

Uushels wheat received. 



1887, 
1S88, 



Bank clearings, 18S6, 
1887, 



Value flour output. 



Feet lumber sawed. 



Assessed valua 



$11,474,402 
12,214,723 
i5.033>07' 
$62,537,000 
66,836,570 
83,075,071 
$i55,34!,ooo 
156,650,000 
187,696,000 
35,066,100 
45,504,480 
45,827,015 
$164,301,748 
194.777.533 
215,995,509 
$24,504,922 
27,211,638 
36,278,889 
267,196,579 
220,822,974 
337.663,301 
$100,872,498 
107,000,000 
127,069,756 



FOUR GREAT advantages; 

There are four things that have contributed conspicuously to the marvelous speed with 



I'hich 

Minneapolis has attained metropolitan dimensions and influence, and that will insure her growth in the 
future. These are: her unequaled water-power; the marvelous richness and rapid development of her 
tributary territory; her a'dmirable railway facilities, and the brightness, energy and ambition of 
her population. 

PROTECTING THE FALL.S. 

The water power of St. Anthony Falls has not only been a source of wealth to the city, but an 
important factor in her rapid development, and the destruction of the falls and loss of their vast water 
power would have been a most serious calamity to the community. On several occasions there|has 
been good cause for the great alarm experienced by the people, for the natural disintegration of the 
river bed — hastened by numerous mechanical enterprises intended to share the water power, such as 
dams, canals and the like — presaged the total destruction of the Falls in the near future, unless imme- 
diate steps were taken for their preservation. In 1868, workmen excavating a tunnel from Hennepin 
Island, under the island and beneath the river, to reach Nicollet Island, were driven out by a great 
leak. A cave in tKe roof followed, which let in vast quantities of debris, and threatened irreparable 
mischief. The rock bed of the river extends only twelve hundred feet above the Falls, and at the time 
of the settlement of St. Anthony had cut its way nearly through the limestone layer. The temporary 
expedients resorted to were continued, renewed and changed, until, by an appropriation from the National 
Government, municipal and private contributions, elaborate plans were carried out for the permanent 
preservation of the falls. The companies controlling the water power had made, in 1886, an attempt 
to protect the crest of the falls by a timber apron, but this was carried off in the spring following. A 
survey made in 1869, by Major G. K. Warren, called the attention of the general Government to the 



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necessity of arresting the destruction that was impending. James B. Fiancis, of Massachusetts, was 
summoned to examine the falls and to report as to the best means of averting the catastrophe. He 
recommended, as a protection against a further recession of the crest, a substantial apron of timber, with 
heavy crib work at the bottom; for the dangerous tunnel— that it be filled for four hundred feet with a 
puddle of clay and gravel ; and against the third great danger— the action of frost— that the limestone be 
kept flooded by low dams. No time was lost in carrying out energetic measures. The national appro- 
priation of $550,000, was expended, beginning with 1S75, and ending March, 1879. A concrete wall 




K.xposiTioN Building. 
•was laid in the bed of sandstone beneath the limestone ledge, six feet in thickness at the base, four feet 
at the top, and forty feet in height, for the entire width of the river; thus eflfectually preventing 
further damage. The amount contributed by the citizens of Minneapolis was $334,000. The whole 
cost of an improvement thus buried out of sight, was nearly a million of dollars, but by it the 130,000 
horse-power of the falls was preserved, and with it the hope of a great and growing community. 

RICH TRIBUT.\RY TERRITORY. 

The richness and rapid development of the tributary territory of Minneapolis were noted as the 
second cause of her phenomenal growth. During the last decade the population of Minnesota increased 



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loo per cent, and it has doubled since 1880. Dakota increased 450 per cent, from 1870 to 18S0, and 
500 jier cent, from 1880 to 1888. Montana has increased about 600 per cent, in eigiiteen years. The 
increase of Minneapolis for the same ten years was 350 per cent, and up to 1888 about 500 per cent. 
One of the strongest points in favor of Minneapolis' continued growth and solidity is the vast amount of 
tributary country yet imdeveloped and unoccupied. In the big Souix resei-vation in Dakota lie 13,000,- 
000 acres, a tract nearly as large as the states of New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland combined, and to 
which we lia\e direct railway communication, simply awaiting an agreement between the government 
and the Siou.K Indians, and outside of this tract in the same territory are 36,000,000 acre.s unsurveyed. 
Minnesota has yet 7,000,000 acres of unsurveyed land, Montana 41,000,000, and Washington Territory 
44,000.000. It is estimated that at the present rate all the public lands will be occupied in twenty years. 

R.AII.WAV FACILITIE.S. 

The railway facilities of Minneapolis are a very marked factor in its development. 

It would be almost impossible to take a map and draw a line 'for a new railway running out of 
MmneapoHs which should find foritself abelt of country not already lully occupied by existing roads, so 
numerous are the radiating tracks of steel which center in the Flour City. To Chicago there are six 
competing lines, each with its own tributary territory for local traffic and each bringing a long list of 
towns and cities into business relations with Minneapolis. To St. Louis there are three lines. Southern 
and Southwestern Minnesota are penetrated by the roads of three different companies. Five lines of 
road stretch out to the Red River Valley. Three run to Duluth. One reaches out eastward to the 
Sault Ste. Marie for a new and short route to the tide-water of the Atlantic. 

Minneapolis and St. Paul form a double-headed railway center. Roads that strike St. Paul first 
continue on to Minneapolis, and in like manner those that first enter Minneapolis end at St. Paul. For 
this reason it is impossible to discuss the railway interests of one of the Twin Cities separately from those 
of the other. No company can afford to neglect the trade of either city, whatever may be its local 
attachments or prejudices. 

The total length of railway lines centering in Minneapolis and St. Paul is 32,756 miles. The 
trains- of all the Eastern roads are made up at Minneapolis, that being their terminus. 

While the railway facilities are the chief factor in tran.sportation facilities furnished for the business 
of Minneapolis, each year increases the influence of water routes in freight tariffs. 

It is but a brief period since the St. Paul & Duluth and Lake Superior, with the meager freight 
cajjacity then navigating the route from Duluth to Buffalo, was the only water route to the seaboard. 
The capacity of the railroad and marine was limited, and the water route by way of Duluth cut but a 
small figure in the commerce of the Northwest. The situation is entirely changed. The St. Paul & 
Duluth Railroad, under new management, is in first-class condition, with ample rolling stock and 
facilities for an immense traffic, which, by refusing to join in combinations with all-rail lines to the East, 
they have received. The Northern Pacific has a through line to Duluth. The Chicago, St. Paul &; 
Omaha have lines to West Superior and Duluth at the head of Lake Superior and one reaching Ash- 
land, Washburn and Bayfield, important shipping ports on the south shore of the lake. 

The St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba, during last year, constructed a road direct to West Superior 
and Duluth. The Wisconsin Central line also reaches Ashland. This gives five lines, operated by 
independent companies, direct to the head of Lake Superior. Early in 1888 the "Soo" road became a 
competitor for the lake and railroad traffic, via Gladstone near the foot of Lake Michigan, and was suc- 
cessful in securing a large traffic. The Lehigh Valley Company put on a line of fine iron steamers, 
erected flour, coal and ore docks. The shipments of flour from this city by the "Soo" road in 1888, the 
first year after it was completed, were 931,502 barrels, most of which went by the Gladstone route. In 



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addition to the routes above named, quite large shipments of flour are made via Green Bay and Mil- 
waukee, thence by lake. By these railroad and water routes forty per cent, of the flour shipped East dur- 
ing the year has reached its destination without traveling around the head of Lake IVIichigan, and this at 
a saving of five to ten cents per barrel in freight, and reaching its destination about as soon as by all- 
rail. The entire supply for the Northwest of Pennsylvania and Ohio coal comes over these lines, as does 
much of the merchandise for the twin cities and the Northwest. 

ST. PMU,, MINNEAI'OLIS & MANITOBA. 

The St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad is the largest wheat-carrying railroad in 
the world. The Company delivered at Minneapolis 21,435,800 bushels of wheat during the year 
of the 44,552,730 delivered in the city. 



be 



bushels 



that delivered at Minneapolis; several million 
distri- 




butor of merchandise, machinery and many other articles, the Manitoba stands at the head of the list of 
the systems entering at Minneapolis. This Company has four distinct lines penetrating all sections of 
Central and Northwestern Minnesota and Dakota, extending through Northern Montana to the great 
mining districts of Helena and Butte. The Company has afour-track line from Minneapolis to St. Paul- 
and a double track to Lake Minnetonka. During last year the Company e.\tended its road from Hinck, 
ley to Duluth and Superior, and is made an important factor in the flour and other carrying trade via 
Lake Superior. The Company have added to their mileage during 1888, 313 miles of road, and its total 
mileage is 3,025. The Manitoba is a competitor for the Montana and Manitoba and all Pacific Coast 
business, and traverses a new territory in Northern Dakota and Montana of great agricultural facilities, 
which will no doubt draw to it a large immigration, until it is occupied and improved, when it will have 
an immense local traffic as the older lines of the Company have to-day. 

THE NORTHWESTERN LINE. 

Among the lines centering in Minneapolis not one has contributed more largely, or is of 
greater importance to the commercial prosperity of the city, than "The Northwestern Line" — Chicago, 



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St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway. It is the short line between Minneapolis, Chicago, Sioux 
City and Omaha. It reaches out to the wheat fields of Dakota and the rich corn belt of Iowa and 
Nebraska, and brings their products to ouf mills and warehouses. From the Michigan Peninsula, 
from the Great Lake Superior towns of Duhith, Superior, Ashland, Bayfield and Washburn; its lines 
reach, via the St. Paul & Minneapolis, to the many new and thriving towns of Nebraska, to the Black 
Hills, and the wonderful coal and oil fields of Wyoming, and through its connections to St. Joseph, 
Lincoln, Kansas City, Denver and the far West. "The Northwestern Line" comprises over 7,000 
miles of road, and is being constantly extended. 

CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & NORTHERN. 

It is a little more than two years since the Chicago, Burlington & Northern Railway entered Min- 
neapolis as a competing line for its trade and that of the Northwest. As a result of the liberal policy 
pursued by the management, the road has enjoyed a large patronage, its flour shipments, particularly, 
dwarfing those of other lines. The equipment is first-class, both passenger and freight. The Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy, of which system the Chicago, Burlington & Northern is a part, is the only company 
running over its own tracks to Chicago, Peoria, Quincy, St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Omaha, 
Cheyenne and Denver. As a passenger road it has no superiors and few equals in the country. The 
mileage of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system is 6,261. 

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL. 

What is now the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul was the first company to open railroad communi- 
cation between Minneapolis and Lake Michigan, or any of the outside world. The company has now 
three distinct trunk lines entering the city from the Southwest^ West and East, each of which have 
branches from the trunk lines, so that the entire West, Southwest and Southeast can be reached on the 
rails owned and operated by this company. Their lines traverse the Central and Southern portions of 
Minnesota and Dakota, reaching to a junction with the Northern Pacific at Fargo. The entire State of 
Iowa is reached by this line. The company has 5,678 miles of road under its management. This road 
was selected by the postoffice department as the line over which the fast mail between the Northwest 
and the seaboard should be transported, and on the expiration of the first contract the service had been 
so satisfactory that a new contract was awarded to them. The headquarters of all the lines of this 
company west of the Mississippi River and north of the Chicago & Council Bluft's division are located 
in this city, with its car and repair shops. 

CHICAC:0, ROCK ISLAND & PAtTFIC. 

The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, of which the Minneapolis & St. Louis forms the Minneapolis 
connection, is another great railway tributary to Minneapolis. The Chicago & Rock Island Company 
was the first to open railroad communication between Chicago and the navigable waters of the Missis- 
sippi River in 1852, when their line reached LaSalle, connecting with the streams to St. I.,ouis, and 
later with the main river at Rock Island. Until the completion of the Chicago & Alton Railroad, 
nearly the entire travel between the Mississippi Valley and the lakes was over this route to Chicago. 
The bulk of the merchandise for St. Louis and the Missouri Valley was transported over this line. The 
Rock Island Company has from its organization been a company of progress. It was the first to con- 
struct a railroad bridge over the Mississippi River, third to connect Minnesota and the Northwest with 
Chicago, and has ever been in the front ranks in all reforms and improvements in its service. Its lines 
pass through the most thickly settled portions of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and other States and 
Territories, and it has always had a full share of the travel to and from this city. It operates 4,516 
miles of road. 



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THE "SOO" ROUTE. 

The Minneapolis, St. Paul &SaultSte. Marie Railway, less formally known as the Soo line, has entered 
the field as a competitive road to the Atlantic seaboard during the past year. It has filled the gap left 
open by the closing of navigation each year in keeping Minneapolis freed from the domineering despot- 
ism of Chicago and her lines of railway. Since the completion of the Soo, Minneapolis has enjoyed 
lower freight rates to and from the Atlantic coast than ever before known for any length of time. 
Various schemes have been attempted to cripple its usefulness, even by congressional action, but so far 
without avail. The Soo will be the great route between the East and the Northwest, and the business 
will be done directly with Minneapolis, and not by the way of Chicago. The road is an oudet not only 
for Minneapolis, but for the great Northwest. The Soo Line operates about eight hundred miles of 
road. Its main lines run from Minneapolis and St. Paul to Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and from Minne- 
apolis to Boynton, D. T. It also has a line graded from Aberdeen to Bismarck, D. T. The Canadian 
Pacific Railway Company having completed its line from Sudbury Junction to Sault Ste. Marie, makes 
in connection with this line a through line from MinneapoUs and St. Paul to Montreal, Boston, New 
York and all New England points. In addition to this, traffic arrangements have been made via the 
Straits of Mackinaw that open to Minneapolis and St. Paul via the .Soo Line by means of the Grand 
Rapids & Indiana Railway all points in Michigan and on the so-called Vanderbilt system of railway. 
The shops of this company are in Minneapolis. 

NORTHERN PACIFIC. 

The Northern Pacific Railroad has within the past year constructed a road from the United States 
boundary to Winnipeg. This gives an independent line to Manitoba's capitol, owned and operated by 
this company. Previous to this construction, the Canadian Pacific controlled the railroad traffic between 
the British Northwest and the States. It was but natural that the Canadian company should pursue a 
policy that would divert trade from the States and over their own lines to the Eastern provinces and the 
seaboard. The Northern Pacific gives to shippers and travelers the choice of route which is beneficial 
to both tlie States and the Province of Manitoba. The country traversed by its lines is rich in 
agricultural and mineral values, and the scenery from the Yellowstone Park to the Pacific coast at 
Portland or Tacoma is grand, and full of interest at all points. The traffic on the Northern Pacific to 
and from this city is steadily and rapidly increasing. The total mileage owned, leased and operated, 
is 3.499- 

CHICAGO, ST. PAUL & KANSAS CITY. 

The Chicago St. Paul & Kansas City Railroad owns and leases eight hundred and fifty miles of 
road. The line passes through a rich and finely developed country in Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. 

WISCONSIN CENTRAL. 

The Wisconsin Central is one of the six trunk lines centering Minneapolis and connecting with the 
trunk lines east from Chicago. It also connects with Lake Superior at Ashland, and with Lake 
Michigan at Green Bay and Milwaukee. It is one of the short lines to Chicago ; when completed it 
will have the finest terminal buildings of any road entering that city, located in the business center of 
the city. The line runs through the best portion of the State of Wisconsin; its northern terminus is 
Ashland, where it connects with the Northern Pacific, with which it has recendy effected close traffic 
relations. The northern half of the line passes through a country rich in mineral and timber resources ; 
the remainder through a fertile and well developed agricultural country. On the line are many 



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thriving cities and towns, furnishing a large local business. It is a successful competitor for through 
traffic at Minneapolis and St. Paul, obtaining a fair percentage of the business. It now operates seven 
hundred and seventy-five miles of road. 

ST. PAUL & DULUTH. 

Having been the first road to open up an outlet via Lake Superior for the i)roducts of the Minne- 
apolis mills, and having demonstrated time and time again that it could at all times be relied upon to 
protect the vital interests of the "Twin Cities" in the very important matter of transportation as against 
combinations in other directions, it is not strange that the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad should be con- 
sidered as one of the important factors in the growth and development of Minneapolis. This line has 
231 miles of track, and is equipped and operated in first-class style. 

THE EASTERN RAILWAY. 

The Eastern Railway, of Minnesota, has this year constructed and put in operation a line of rail- 
way from Hinckley, Minn., to West Superior, Wis. At Hinckley it connects with the Manitoba Rail- 
way for St. Cloud. The Eastern also has trackage rights, by lease, over the Manitoba, so that it runs 
its own trains between Hinckley and Minneapolis, thus operating a through line between this city and 
the head of Lake Sui)erior. The Eastern has surveyed an independent line from Hinckley to Minne- 
apolis, which, when constructed, will save much distance and afford low grade and a curvature so light 
as to be most inconsiderable, there being only one curve of more than one degree. The Eastern is 
establishing an independent line of steamers on the lakes to run in connection with the road, thus 
furnishing Minneapolis with a route independent not only of the Chicago railway lines, but of the old 
line transit companies on the lakes as well. . 

A GRE.\T MANUFACTURING CENTER. 

Minneapolis gained its first start as a manufacturing city, and its first large manufacturing industry, 
after that of lumber, was the production of flour. For many years it has been the greatest flour-manu- 
facturing center in the world, and in this capacity has wrested from Milwaukee and Chicago the title of 
the greatest primary wheat market in the world, receiving and itself consuming in the manufacture of 
flour a larger quantity of wheat per day than those cities ever handled to supply their speculative and 
forwarding trade. 

HISTORY OF MINNEAPOLIS FLOUR PRODUCTION. 

The old government mill, which in 1822, with its single stone, ground out a little flour for the 
garrison at Fort Snelling, stood on the present site of the Sidle-Fletcher-Holmes Co.'s mill in the heart 
of the West Side milling district. In 185 1 a small grist-mill was started on the East Side, adjoining the 
Steele saw-mill. In 1854 Rollins, Eastman & Upton built the Island mill, with five runs of stone. It 
was a three-story mill, and its size 40x60 feet, and grain for it had to be brought from Iowa, there not 
being sufficient for it in this section. The St. Anthony Water Power Company was incorporated in 
1856, with a capital stock of $160,000, and subsequently increased to $640,000. This company con- 
trols the water power on the East Side. The Minneapolis Mill Company was also incorporated in 1856 
for the improvement of the West Side power. They sell or lease the water power to the operators of the 
mills. In 1858 a Mr. Getchell sent some flour East on consignment, to liquidate certain claims against 
him, which proved so acceptable that an order for one hundred barrels of Minneapolis flour was soon 
received, and other orders followed. Ex-Governor C. C. Washburn, of Wisconsin, played a conspicu- 
ous part in the development of the milling industry, and introduced in his mills here all the improved 
machinery, and the adoption of the roller process was mainly through his instrumentality. The middlings 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 17 

purifiers were perfected, and the Pillsburys subsequently had them in their mills, and soon all the mills 
had all the improved processes. The "new process tiour" raised the price of flour known as such $3 or 
$4 per barrel, and in 1878 it was introduced into the English markets. 

In 1878 there was a fearful explosion in the Washburn "A" mill, which shook the city like the shock 
of an earthquake, and was felt even in St. Paul. The mill was discovered to be on fire, and fourteen 
men were burned with it. Five other mills caught fire and were destroyed at the same time. The 
property destroyed was valued at $1,000,000. The mills have since been rebuilt. There was another 
terrific explosion in December, 1881, when four mills and a cotton mill were destroyed by fire, and 
several persons lost their lives. The property destroyed was about half a million dollars in value. The 
mills were subsequently rebuilt. 

There are now twenty-three mills in Minneapolis, which have an aggregate daily capacity of 36,150 
barrels. The Pillsbury "A" is located on the East Side, and is the Jargest mill in the world. It has 
turned out 7,000 barrels of flour in twenty-four hours. The Washburn "A" mill, located on the West Side, 
is second in size ; has a ca- 
pacity of 4,000 barrels 
daily, and when fully 
equipped can turn out 6,- 
000 barrels. The total 
product of the Minneapo- 
lis mills during last year 
was 7,056,680 barrels. 
The exports for the year 
were 2,197,640 barrels. 

THE LUMBER BUSINESS. 

Lumbering was the par- 
ent manufacturing indus- <-- 
try in Minneapolis. Be- 
fore the United States 
soldiers located on the 
Fort Snelling reservation 
(in which was then included 
the present site of Minne- 
apolis) had learned to utilize the power going to waste in the Falls of St. Anthony, for 
crude and unsatisfactory way the cereal products of the country, they had put it to use 
white pine logs, found within two days' journey on the banks of the Mississippi. A dozen years ago no 
one alluded to Minneapolis as the "Flour City," and everybody — particularly in St. Paul — called her 
the "Sawdust City," and tinged the phrase with something of sarcastic derision. But while other 
manufacturing industries have since somewhat dwarfed in comparison the manufacture of lumber, 
until it is apt to be given a secondary position in the count of the elements of greatness possessed by 
Minneapolis, the fact remains that it has shown steady and rapid increase, and that more lumber is 
manufactured in Minneapolis than at any other point west of Lake Michigan. The total cut for 1888 
was 337,663,301 feet of lumber, 106,736,150 shingles, and 74.016,479 pieces of lath. 

But the future of Minneapolis as a lumbering city does not promise to rest alone upon her capacity 
to convert saw-logs into salable lumber. For the past five years one-third as much lumber has been 
ship])ed into Minneapolis as has been shipped out of her lumber yards. Her own enormous local con- 




r 



Merrill, 



jrinding in a 
n sawing the 



18 RESOURCES OF MWNESOTA. 

sumption, and her growing importance as a lumber market, has made all this necessary and natural. The 
development of the railroad system centering here, which is now going on, promises to make more 
marked each year the growth of this purely wholesaling of lumber. Chicago, which has been for years 
the great distributing point for white pine, recognizes it, and has proof of it in the annually diminishing 
amount of lumber put forth. The railroads are rapidly revolutionizing the whole course of shipment of 
lumber from the pine regions of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, to the prairies of Southern Min- 
nesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota. The region in Northern Wisconsin, which 
seven years ago was an almost unbroken forest, has from year to year been penetrated by feeders and 
main lines of great railroad corporations. The lumber manufacturer, who, five years ago, used to find 
it cheaper to float his lumber down some stream to Lake Michigan, and ship it by schooner to Chicago, 
now loads the product of his mill on a car at the very tail of his mill, and ships it by the most direct 
route West and Southwest. When the Wisconsin Central first penetrated the great pine region of Wis- 
consin, with its line to Ashland, a saw-mill sprang up every five or six miles along the line. 'These mills 
flourished under the stimulus of the jboom of 1882-3, but it did not take their owners long to find out 
when competition began to be sharp, and margins of profit small, that they couldn't ship lumber East, to 
Milwaukee and Chicago, and compete with lumber already moving West, from across the lake. Nor 
did it take long for the shrewd men in control of the road to discover that this chief industry along 
their line must pave an outlet West. This outlet has found a terminus in Minneapolis, and the lumber 
from the Wisconsin Central mills finds a market and a point of distribution here. The Minneapolis, 
Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic Railroad is playing an even more important part in determining the move- 
ment of the product of the Wisconsin saw-mills. It is true that the supply of white pine will not last 
forever, but while it lasts, it will bring money into the coff"ers of Minneapolis. 

THE P.A.CKING INDUSTRY. 

To these two great industries of Minneapolis, in which she leads the world, there is now to be added 
another, which will appear second in the list in point of importance — beef and pork packing. There 
were handled last year at the Minnesota transfer 87,000 Montana cattle alone. This year there will be 
many more handled. Minneapolis is the natural gateway to the seaboard for the cattle and hogs of 
Montana, Nebraska, Northern Iowa, Dakota and Minnesota. The Soo line is 400 miles shorter than 
any Chicago line, and it is but natural that it should become the great thoroughfare for the dressed beef 
and hog products en route to Liverpool and European ports and the East. The Minneapolis stock yards 
are located at the great vantage point — the junction of the Soo and the Northern Pacific, Kansas City 
and Manitoba railroads. As the loads of cattle arrive from the West in a direct air line, they will be 
unloaded, dressed and packed in refrigerator cars, sent out over the Soo road in refrigerator cars bound 
for Montreal; there to be packed in refrigerator steamers bound for Liverpool, or else landed in 
Boston and New England points by this short line of the continent. The importance of this great 
enterprise as pertaining to the future of Minneapolis can scarcely be estimated; for as the business 
develops it will carry with it increased population and be of lasting benefit to all lines of trade. 

OTHER MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES. 

The manufacturing industries of Minneapolis do not end with those of flour and lumber and pack- 
ing. Articles innumerable are produced in the city, in both large and small quantities. There are 
thirty-nine foundries and machine shops, threshing machine and agricultural implement works, woolen 
mills, glass factories, paper mills, knitting works, railroad car manufacturing and repair shops, and 
hundreds of minor industries of which the public know little. The following list of the principal 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 



articles manufactured, and the number of establishments, will give the reader an idea of the magnitude 
of the manufacturing interests of Minneapolis: 



Manufactures. Xo. 

Agricultural implements and dealers 35 

Architects' supplies i 

Artificial stone 2 

Asl) frame and door 1 

Antique metal workers i 



fun 



Asbestine stone i 

Awning and tent 5 

Bags 2 

Barrels 16 

Baskefi i 



Manufactures. 
Meerschaum pipes 

Nails 

Overalls 

Oars 

Neckyokes 

Paper 

Pop 

Pottery 



Printing ink 

l^anges 

Sash, door?, blinds 




Baking powd 
Billiard balls. 
Blank books. 
Blacksmiths . 



Boots and shoes 



Brick (and dealers) 20 

Brick wheelbarrows i 



rush. 



Butter 

Butter tubs. . 
Band Cutter. 
Billiard tables 



saw mills 15 

.Shingles 8 

-Shirts... 8 

Silver plated ware i 

Spring bed 3 



Suspenders 2 

Threshing machines i 

Tanneries 2 

Tallow 2 

Tiling 4 

Trunks 2 

Washboard i 

Water tank i 

Wine works i 



ao 

Manufactures. 

Boilers 

Books and stationciy 

Bottles 

Brackets 

Brass founders 

Brick niokl 

Brooms 

Bustles 

Cooking stoves 

Cork 

Crackers 

Carriages (and dealers) 

Chairs 

Cigar boxes 

Confectionery 

Cooper shops 

Cornice 

Corsets 

Caskets 

Chemist 

Cider 

Cigars 

Clothing 

Distillery 

Egg cases 

Engines 

Eleclrotyping ^ 

Flour mill mach 

Files 

Furniture 

Gloves 

Glue 

Grain cleaners 

Guns 

Harvesters 

Hoopskirts 

Hair works 

Iron works 

Fence 

Flour mills 

Foundries and machine shops . 

Ginger ale 

Hard soap 

Harness (and dealers) 

Heaters 

Horse collars 

Jewelry 

Knit goods 

Optician 



RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 



Manukactures. 

Woolen goods 

Veast cake 

Show cases 

Soap 

Steam heat apparatus. 

Stencils 

Straw board 

Terra cotta 



Trucks I 



\ mcgar 

Wliips 

Woodenware 



Washing machines . 
Wrought iron pipe. 

Models 

Meat packing 

Mineral water 

Monuments 

Picture frames 

I'lumbers. 

Preserves 

Plated ware 

Lithographing 

Lard 

Lamps 

Medicine 

Mill picks 

Oil fiUer 

Oil 

Perfumery 

Pipes 

Paint 

Pickles 

Plows 

Portable car 

Pressed bricks 

Radiators 

Rye flour 

School furniture. . . 

Reflectors 

Refrigerators . . . . 

I'™'I« 

Rubber goods 

Starch 



Total 584 

Tlie small establishments are rapidly growing, and within another decade, as in the history of 
every growing city, the present seemingly uniinportant factories will have acquired wealth and pro- 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 21 

portions which would, without the acquisition of new institutions, hold the city foremost in rank as a 
manufacturing center. 

The demand for goods manufactured in Minneapolis is rapidly increasing, orders coming in from 
Michigan to the Pacific Coast, and from Southern Iowa to the Northwest Territory. Factories from all 
over the country are removing to Minneapolis, attracted hither by the rapidly developing contiguous 
country and the increasing facilities possessed by Minneapolis for distributing goods throughout the 
Northwest. 

AN INTERESTING TAHLE. 

The following table, carefully compiled by the Minneapolis Tribune, shows the capital invested in 
Minneapolis industries, on the ist of January, 18S9, and the value of the products put out by each in 
the year 18S8: 



lANUFACTORIES. 



Agiicultural implements and mill 

furnishing machinery 

Awnings, tents, etc 

Bags, paper bo.ves, etc 



Barrels 



Blacksmithing 

Boots and shoes (manufacturers) 

Boots and shoes (custom work).. 

Bottling 

Breweries 

Briclc, stone paving and cornice. 

Brooms and brushes 

Carpentering and building 

Cars and repairing 

Cigars 

Clothing (tailoring) 

Clothing, women's 

Clothing, overalls, etc 

Confectioners 

Creameries 

Electrotyping and printers' sup' 
plies 

Feed mills 

Flouring mills 

Fence works 

Foundries and machine shops.. 

Furniture, mattresses and car- 
pets - 

Glass bottles, stained glass 

Gloves, moccasins and furriers... 

Granite and marble works 

Hardware, stoves and heaters... 



$1,520,000 

25,000' 

300,000 

.325,000, 



529,000 
130,000 



700,000 
5° 
15,000 



120,000 
200,000 



215,000 
30,000 



7,000,000 

116,000 

1,143,200 

300,000 



57,000 
225,000 



$1,787,000 

70,000 

250,000 

1,149,028 

275,000 

♦ 790,000 

300,000 

725,000 

385,000 

875,000 

50,000 

10,000,000 I 

3,000,000 

485,000 

1,158,000 j 

180,000 

500,000 

823,000 

154,000 

25,003 

500,000 

36,278,889 

197,000 

2,610,500 

1,317,000 
150,00c 
145,000 
230,0)0 



MANUFACTORIES. 



Harness, trunks and belting 

Hoopskirts, bustles, etc 

Jewelry and plating 

Lock and gunsmithing 

Millinery and hair goods 

Opticians' supplies 

Packing meats 

Paints and oils 

Paper 

Patterns and models 

Potteries and tinware 

Picture frames 

Planing mills 

Plumbing 

Printing and lithogiaphing.. 



■Sav 



Sash, door and blinds 

Soda and mineral waters 

Sewer pipe 

Soaps and perfumery 

Show cases and office fixtures. 

Spices and starch 

Suspenders 

Stencils , 

Uunderwear, shirts, knit goods 

Wagons and carnages , 

Woodenware, boxes 

Woolen mills 

Wheelwrighting 

M iscellaneous 



CAPITAL. 



130,000 
47,000 



150,000 
395,000 
50,000 
10,000 
50,000 
20,000 



75,000 
I7,oo0| 
15,000 



75,000, 
250,000! 



285,000 

64,000 

25,000 

50,000 

10,000 

560,000 

415,000 

50,000 

35>ooo 

380,000 

50,000 

3,750,000 

280,000 

I,C97,684 

4,826,000 

2,585,000 

65,000 

75,000 

100,000 

1:5,000 

200,OCO 

28,000 
76,000 
142,000 
500,000 
380,000 
600,000 
75,000 
1,500,000 

$83,075,101 



The magnitude of these figures is indicated by the fact that the census of 18S0 shows only seven 
cities with a manufacturing product in excess of this enormous output, and the smallest of these, 
Cincinnati, contained a population of 225,000. 



RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 



AN ENCOURAGING PROSPECT. 

What Minneapolis has acquired in past years in manufacturing institutions is in a fair way of being 
dwarfed by the achievements of the future. No particular effort has been made to attract industries to 
the city in the past three years, yet, as noted above, manufacturers have located here in large numbers. 
But the citizens of Minneapolis are aggressive, and have lately turned their attention to soliciting the 

presence of reputable companies desiring to 
locate in the Northwest, and while they are 
opposed to buying a plant to get it, a well- 
meaning manufacturer will generally find a 
reasonable amount of capital ready to invest 
in an industry with a future before it and abil- 
ity back of it. 

THE JOKIIING TRADE. 

Like many other features of the growth of 
Minneapolis, that of her jobbing trade has been 
phenomenal. The rapidity of its development 
has had no parallel in any city anywhere in 
the Northwest, Middlewest or Southwest. 
This is a broad assertion, but it rests on the 
solfd foundation of facts. Twenty years ago 
there were no jobbing interests here, what 
ever; to-day they reach far up into the mill- 
ions. Quite a number of the leading jobbers 
in this city began their career as retail dealers, 
and from jobbing in a small way from their re- 
tail stocks developed into full-fledged whole- 
salers. The rapid development of the coun- 
try tributary to this market afforded e.xcellent 
opportunities and supplied an irresistable 
stimulus to their ambition. As a man must 
eat first of all, the jobbing grocery trade is 
usually the first to develop in a new city. Dry- 
goods, hardware, boots and shoes, drugs and 
other staple lines follow. The pioneer gro- 
cery houses were originally retail establish- 
ments. There were no railroads, and the 
routine of their retail trade was occasion- 
ally broken by the sale of a job lot of 
merchandise to a country dealer, who would drive into market, load up his wagon or ox-cart, and make 
his way back to some little settlement on the almost uninhabited prairie, or in the solitary depths of the 
backwoods. Naturally the territory was very limited, but with the building of the railroads and the 
opening up of the country incident thereto this was steadily extended. It was not long until the com- 
mercial traveler became a necessity, and the grocery jobbers began to send these trade scouts and 
skirmishers into the country. With their proverbial persistence, the gripsackers steadily pushed to the 
front, not only following up the new- railroads, but pressing on in advance of them. At first the grip- 




CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 23 

carrier could only go a comparatively short distance by rail, and would have to complete his circuit by 
stage, enduring in winter, with far less glory, hardships sometimes almost as severe as those suffered by 
North Pole seekers. Thus, in a few years, the volume of business in this line has increased from a few 
thousands of dollars to millions. All of the fine wholesale grocery houses have ample capital and are in 
a highly prosperous condition. One firm is conceded to be the largest in this line in the Northwest. 
Goods are shipped in great quantities to the Manitoba hue on the north, to Montana and Washington 
on the west, and hundreds of miles towards other points of the compass. Every year shows a material 
increase in the total sales. 

There were no dry goods business in Minneapolis until 1874. Retail dealers now and then sold a 
jag of goods to a country merchant, but this was not regarded as of any consequence. The pioneer house 
opened up when the population of the city did not exceed 1,800. Two skirmishers were then sent out. 
The Manitoba line at that time extended only as far north as Alexandria. Tra,velers, on reaching that 
point, made their way by stage to Fergus Falls, Breckenridge and other towns. When the Northern 
Pacific line was being developed, the grip-sack men would travel by rail as far west as Moorhead, and 
thence up and down the Red River Valley by stage. Traveling salesmen in those days would meet fort- 
traders at Bismarck, and run r~ — • r- - .^. 

down the Mississippi River 
to Standing Rock and Yank- 
ton. The multiplicity of 
railroad routes has changed 
all this. It is safe to ])ut 
the total of sales in the dry 
goods line for the first year 
at less than $100,000. But 
the dry goods jobbers were 
aggressive and pushed their 
trade into new territory in.j 
advance of the railroads, 
until now goods are sold 
throughout Minnesota, Da- 
kota and Montana, in Washington, the Black Hills country, Iowa, Wisconsin and even Nebraska. 
The leading firms occupy mammoth buildings, and do business that mounts into the millions annually. 

This city has long been the recognized headquarters in the Northwest for agricultural machinery 
and implements. It has held the lead for years. The only rival in the whole country has been Kansas 
City. While the latter place has been gradually losing ground Minneapolis has been more rapidly 
gaining. This has taken place in spite of adverse circumstances, which make our growth all the 
more surprising and gratifying. To-day Minneapolis, both in the volume of business done and in the 
confidence of those whose confidence is most to be valued, stands without a peer as a center for the 
handling of agricultural machinery. 

The fruit shippers of the original markets look upon Minneapolis as a phenomenon. No place in 
the North or West, outside of Chicago, can compare with Minneapolis in this line. She has been a 
heavy consumer, and besides has been a point of distribution for a large territory. 

Thejobbing in dressed meat received a strong impetus during 1888. The prospect of a consider- 
able development of the packing industry here seems to have aroused the outside concerns to aggressive 
efforts. Two large packing firms have established important branches and have done a fine business. , 
There has been little if any falling off in the sales of the agencies formerly established, so that the busi- 




ARTEblA.N ^\ tLL, CeN IRAL PARK. 



24 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

ness, as a whole, has been noticeably increased. The North American Beef Company began business 
last fall. This is a branch of the George H. Hammond Company, which has houses at Chicago, Omaha, 
Detroit and New York. The Kansas City Dressed Beef Company, whose goods have hitherto been 
handled at this point by other parties, placed a branch here early in the year and have done a thriving 
husiness. 

The popularity of the Northern-grown seeds has lesulted in an increase in that line of business of 
from forty to fifty per cent. There is a strength in seeds grown in this latitude that commends them to 
planters all over the couutry. They are accordingly preferred to all others, and are rapidly attaining a 
reputation. The territory covered by Minneapolis seed men is much wider than it was a year ago, 
and its growth is but beginning. 

FIGURES WHICH SPE.AK VOLUMES. 

The entire jobbing business of Minneapolis is on a healthy basis, and is rapidly developing. The 

following table shows the amount of business transacted in each line during last year. '^he showing 
made is an admirable one, the more especially so if allowance be made for the fact that last year was 
a presidential year : 

Agricultural machinery, wagons, carriages, etc. . . ; $13,950,000 

Billiard tables and barroom supplies 76,000 

Boots and shoes 1,290,000 

Cigars and tobacco 1,230,000 

Confections, crackers, biscuits, etc 600,000 

Crockery and queenswaie 120,000 

Curtains and draperies 1 50,000 

Dry goods 3,000,000 

Drugs and paints 950,000 

Fruits _ 2,500,000 

Fuel 3,234,300 

Furniture 175,000 

General produce , 4,000,000 

Glass and glaziers' supplies 750,000 

Groceries ro,38o,ooo 

Hay, feed and millstuffs 765,000 

Hardware, iron and stoves 2,450,000 

Hats, caps, millinery and furs. 400,000 

Hides and pelts 1,250,000 

Imported woolens 30,000 

Jewelry 300,000 

Lime, cement, brick and buildmg materi.il 600,000 

Lumber 1,304,500 

Livestock ; 500,000 

Machinery, engines and machinists' supplies . . 645,000 

Mantiles, tiles and interior decorations 175,000 

Meat and provisions 2,285,000 

Musical instruments 450,000 

Oysters, 5sh, etc 500,000 

Oils 1,000,000 

Paper, paper bags, etc, 7 1 5,000 

Plumbers' supplies and heating apparatus 500,000 

Printing materials 200,000 

Rubber goods, belting, leather, etc 450,000 

Saddlery, harness, etc 3.x),ooo 



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Sash, doors and blinds. . 

Seeds 

Sporting goods 

Surgical and optical inst 

Trunks 

Wines and liquors 

Total 



, barbers' and photographers' suppli< 



600,000 
350,000 

90,000 
100,000 

40,000 
800,000 



$59,204,800 

Total for 1887 56,669,250 



To make a complete showing of the business, which may be properly called wholesale, 
which cannot be strictly put in with the exclusive jobbing trade, it will be necessary to add 
jobbed by manufacturers and 



but all of 
the goods 



the grain commission busi- 
ness, both of which are really 
jobbing. The grain commis- 
sion business this year has 
been enormous. It was last 
year, according to Secretary 
Sturtevant, of the Chamber 
of Commerce, double what 
it was a year ago. The 
transactions in the Chamber 
for the last three months of 
last year averaged over $1,- 
000,000 per day. The rest 
of the year the amount was 
also much larger than usual. 
The lumber, of course, has 
been jobbed by the manu- 
facturers and mill men, and 
is as much entitled to be 
considered in the jobbing total as groceries or dry goods 
The grand total is given in the following summary : 




At the Soldiers' Home. 



The same is true of the flour business. 



Exclusive jobbing ? 59,204,800 

Manufactured goods jobbed 21,435,000 

Grain commission 125,000,000 

Flour 38,000, 000 

Lumber, shingles and lath 5,125,000 



Total $248, 764, 800 

Total for 1887 193,136,682 



Increase $ 55,628,118 



FREIGHT TRAFFIC STATISTICS. 



Counting the various branches, there are twenty-seven or twenty-eight railroads running into and 
out of Minneapolis. The amount of traffic done by them in a year is something enormous, and each 



26 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

year greatly swells the fast-growing figures which represent this traffic. The amount of business done 
at this point, however, has been very large, as will appear from the following table, sliowing the number 
of cars received and shipped from December i, '87, to December i, '88: 




Receipts. 
Cars. 

December 15,667 

January 9,152 

February 13,240 

March ' 2, 532 

April 13,507 

May 10,972 

J»"e 11,578 

July 12,331 

August 11,012 

September 15,977 

October 21,799 

November 20,734 



Total 



167,481 



11,227 
7.4" 
10.559 
12,109 
■3.045 
•4.535 
13.027 
13.750 
15,310 
15.056 
16,609 
12,953 
'55.583 



fffTfr 



JlJiajTrfTrrTrr; 



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ITTTITrrrrrrnTr 




the most important 



The receipts were less than the receipts for 
1 88 7, from January to January, by 4,900 cars, 
but the shipments are 1,700 cars larger. 

The principal items which go to make business 
for the roads here are wheat, corn, oats, tlour, 
umber, millstuffs, fruit, machinery, coal, etc. It 
will be interesting to note that the merchandise 
received during the period from December, 1887, 
III December, 1888, weighed 339,200,696 pounds, 
\\ hich is 9,000,000 pounds more than the weight 
of the receipts for the year 1887. The shipments 
of merchandise for the year ending December i, 
I SS8, weighed 349,376,620 pounds, being an ex- 
. OSS of 8,000,000 pounds over those for 1887. 
I'hus, while the number of car loads was less, 
^ the amount of merchandise was greater this year 
than last. 

^ ' ' ' The following summary shows in brief the 

tems for the year 1888. 

Receipts. 

339,200,696 



.pyy- 



Shipments. 

Merchandise, ttis 339,200,696 349,376,620 

Machinery, fts 35.755.644 37.633,510 

Wheat, bu 44,725,050 11,179,960 

Corn, bu 940,400 219,000 

Oals, bu 1,695,600 

Barley, bu 369,000 519,000 

Flax seed, bu ^ 464,500 124,000 

Flour, bbls 64,962 6,973,265 

Millstuffs, tons 6,991 214,009 

Fruits, lbs 47,091,071 

Coal, tons 295,304 25,815 

Lumber, feet 43,420,000 172,630,000 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 




Sfpe most popular, best patronized, l?a[}d5om(?st, Safest, ai^d tl^e fipcjst u(?9tilat(?d 
7l7(?atre iq tl?(? |Vortl?uu?5t. S(?ati99 eapaeity, 2000. 



RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 



THE BANKS OF MINNEAPOLIS. 

Banks are the commercial barometers of the nation. When the business is good in the commercial 
world the banks are prosperous and bankers happy. But let a depression come and money cease 
circulating, then the banks, first of all, sufter from the stringency. The year 1888, generally speaking, 
was a bearish year throughout the country. In the East, particularly, new enterprises were scarce, and 
business in commercial lines dull, and in consequence the clearances fell off heavily from the previous 
year. But not so in Minneapolis. The commercial and manufacturing center of the most productive 
section of the country was very little affected by the stringency which prevailed elsewhere. While even 
the clearings of St. Paul showed a decrease of more than twelve per cent., Minneapolis clearings and 
banking business continued to grow in keeping with the development of the city and surrounding 
country. 

There are in the city six National, fifteen State, and two savings banks. Following is a list showing 
the paid-in capital of each bank in 1S87 and 1888: 



Bank of Minneapolis 

Citizens' Bank of Minneapolis.... 

City 

Commercial Bank of Minneapolis 
Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings 
Farmers' and Merchants' State... 

First National 

Flour City National 

Franklin State 

Garland Bank 

German-American 

Hennepin County Savings Bank., 

I rish- American 

National Bank of Commerce 

Nicollet National 

Northwest National 

People's 

Scandia 

Security 

Standard 

State Bank... 

Swedish-American 

Union National 



Paid in capital. 



P 1 50,000 
250,000 
-! 00,000 



$150,000 
250,000 
300,000 

200,003 



40,000 


25,000 


1,000,000 


1 ,000,000 


500,000 


400,000 


50,000 


50,000 


75,000 
100,000 
100,000 






100,000 


100,030 

750,000 




750,000 


500,000 


500,000 


1,000,000 


1,000,000 


100,000 


100,000 


100,000 


50,000 


1,030,000 


1,000,000 


25,000 


25,000 


75.000 


75,000 


100,000 





500,000 500,000 

Tot^l $ 7,015,000 $6,375,000 

The deposits of these banks, according to their statements in October, 1888, aggregated 
$23,706,249, and their loans and discounts, $22,822,007. 

The aggregate yearly clearings of the Minneapolis banks, since 1882, are as follows: 

'883 $ 87,50^,000.00 

1884 1 10,556,619.00 

'88s 125,477,478.00 

■886 164,301,748.00 

'**^7 194,777,533 38 

"888 215,895,359-56 

With this presentation it is proper to advert briefly to the growth of the Minneapolis banking 
business. Snyder & McFarlane established the first bank in 1858, which was followed by one bank per 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. ^^ 

year for the next twenty-four years; but they kept dropping down like pins in a bowling alley. Of the 
twenty-five banks established during this period only ten survived in 1881, representing an aggregate 
capital of $2,550,000. They were the First National, started in 1857 by Sidle, Wolford & Co. ; Bank of 
Minneapolis, 1867; City Bank, 1869; Hennepin County Savings Bank, 1870; Northwestern National, 
1872; Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Bank, 1874; Citizens' Bank, 1876; Security Bank, 1878; 
Commercial Bank, 1880. 

FINANCIAL CORPORATIONS. 

Minneapolis is becoming the headquarters for heavy financial institutions in the West. During the 
year ending August i, 1888, more companies were incorporated than in any three previous years, an 

increase in nurnl.cr (if nearly 70 per ( ent. The list of new ruvy 



■ms organized during the past year 




includes mining companies to a great extent, manufacturing institutions, commercial and railroad com- 
panies. They numbered 143, with capital approximating $.77,000,000, while the corporations existing 
prior to August 31, 1887, numbered but 222. Each of these institutions is of great benefit to the city. 
A large number, being composed of residents of other cities, serve to bring in outside capital and 
interest Eastern business in Minneapolis. The mining companies are, as a general thing, owners of 
new but promising mines of all classes, located as far east as the iron fields of Michigan, as far south 
as the gold, silver, mica and tin deposits of the Black Hills in Dakota, and as far west as the rich 
mineral fields of Montana. In time, they will give employment to large clerical forces at headquarters, 
and thus augment the popidation of Minneapolis. 

THE RETAIL TRADE. 

The Flour City has always been ambitious as a retail town. Her broad avenues, level streets, and 
elegant and commodious business blocks have tended to stimulate this ambition and its consequent tulfiU- 



30 RE SO UR CES OF MINNESO TA . 

ment. Long before the city had assumed a metropolitan aspect, or presumed to compete with St. Paul in 
the jobbing field, she was recognized as the more promising retail mart of the twins. This is probably 
characteristic of industrial cities, and has been fully justified by the outcome. Nicollet Avenue is known 
from one end of creation to the other, and our merchants are famed for their progressiveness and enter- 
prise. We surpass any other city in the Northwest in number and variety, as well as the dimensions 
and completeness of our retail establishments, and we leave all our rivals so far in the rear as to render 
comparisons unnecessary. 

Minneapolis is the undoubted favorite with the country trade, whose "shopping" in person and by 
mail is a prolific source of profit to our merchants. 

All linesin which the retail trade of Minneapolis has lacked first class representation in the past 
have long since been filled by a class of firms than whom there are no abler exponents in any city in the 
West. The most noticeable feature in the growth of the retail business is the evolution of the general 
store with its miscellaneous stocks inio the numerous abodes of special and exclusive "branches of 
merchandise, and the resultant betterment and embellishment of these establishments with newer and 
brighter displays of the most modern products of the looms and workshops of the world. 

This gradual advancement of trade conditions has resulted in creating a degree of competition 
which has had a two-fold effect; first, in stimulating the dealers to renewed energies, and second, in 
bestowing corresponding benefits upon the buyers or consumers. 

BUSINESS men's organizations. 

Of the numerous business men's organizations which flourish in Minneapolis, there will be room 
here to speak of only a few as representatives of all, beginning with the Board of Trade and the Chamber 
of Commerce. While there is nothing ostentatious about the actions of these two important bodies, 
having for their object the welfare of the city, they have, in a quiet way, accomplished a vast amount of 
good, substantial work for Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Board of Trade was organized in 1872, with 
W. D. Washburn, H. T. Welles, Richard Chute, John Potts Brown, A. B. Barton, J. S. Walker, E. W. 
Herrick, Jacob Stone, Jr., and W. W. McNair, as incorporators. The object, in the beginning, was 
to direct and control the transactions of this marJcet, as well as to represent m public affairs the interests 
of the mercantile community; but since the organization of the Chamber of Commerce, the Board has 
been wholly devoted to the public service, influencing legislation, disseminating information, and 
fostering that spirit of energy and emulation which now animates all pursuits. The Board is composed 
of two hundred and fifty of the most energetic, yet conservative, citizens and business men of the city. 
It holds weekly meetings, which are well attended and very interesting. During the past year many 
important matters have been taken in hand and adjusted, and the Board now has under consideration a 
number of propositions from large manufacturing and commercial institutions which desire to locate in 
the city. 

The articles of incorporation of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce bear date of October nth, 
188 1. On November isth, following, the first meeting under this charter was held. Briefly stated, the 
objects of the Chamber are to facilitate the buying and selling of all products, the adjustment of business 
disputes, the dissemination of information ; in short, organized co-operation to advance the interests of 
its members and the community. The principal transactions of the Chamber are in grain and flour, 
domestic produce and commodities of that nature not being quoted on its floor. The handsome and 
tasteful structure occupied by the Chamber cost $180,000, and with its site, is valued at $250,000. The 
membership roll of the Chamber of Commerce was augmented by the addition of sixty names during the 
last fiscal year, which ended October 31, 1888. The new members are many of them men of wealth, 
who have come to the city from outside cities on account of the superior facilities for dealing in grain in 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 31 

Minneapolis. Outside grain men are beginning to realize that Minneapolis controls the wheat marke 
of the United States, and that if they would do business to advantage they must be at the market center. 

The flour millers of Minneapolis all belong to a body, which was organized in 1875, for their mutual 
benefit and protection. It is known as the Minneapolis Millers' Union. 

The Jobbers' Association, organized in 1884, for the purposes of mutual protection and social 
intercourse, comprises the leading wholesale merchants of the city. 

The Lumber Dealers' Association, the Real Estate Exchange, the Produce Exchange, the Under- 
writers' Association and the clearing House, are among the other business organizations of Minneapolis. 

MINNEAPOLIS REAL ESTATE VALUES. 

Minneapolis dirt is valuable. A front foot of it on a leading business street is worth $1,500 to 
$2,000. For the past seven or eight years there has been wonderful activity in the real estate market. 
Values have risen by start- 
ling leaps, the recorded 
transactions have piled 
up prodigiously, property 
everywhere within five miles 

of the business center has ^,^m^ <&"" 

been platted. It has not ^ SS^a'» ®'^ 

been a ficticious "boom." ™__=.^„„__s.,.„ -.,„ . 

The general growth and u]) ""^g|gfl|S«P|pk'-'^" J^ m ^ ■'-^^tji'' 

building of the city has war- r ^^agBpiBFligg^pfec^ ^^t 

ranted the remarkable ad- — ^^^^SB'fH^ffl fflf-"^'^ / « snitt 

vance in values. Here are y- J^'-^^^^S^^fe^^^W^ j { 
the figures showing the ^j^^^^^aMl^^Nl'^Bfi^ 
number and aggregate con- S^^^^^-ipLsirf'Sr'IrJrirrffo Jril* "I --4 ^tiflE (* 
hideration of deeds filed in 

the register's office for each 

Swedish Christian Missio.n Church. 
of the past ten years : 

No. Consideration. 

,3ij8 n.Soo $42,679,600 

1887 15-496 57>322.239 

1886 '4.493 36.833.77i* 

1885 8,160 25,297,079 

1884 8.872 25,008,443 

,88- 10,220 28,308,550 

1882 '.811 19,161,291 

1881 5.902 8,425,045 

1880 • 3.'6i 4.608,017 

1879 V ^'4°^ 3.380,245 

The total for 1888 was not quite up to that for 1887; still the record was an excellent one for a 
quiet year. These figures are quite remarkable, and indicate not only the vast increase in the volume 
of business, but the increase in values, for while the number of transfers have increaaed five-fold the 
considerations have increased about fourteen-fold. 

The platting during the past eighteen months has gone on at a pretty lively rate, even if the times 
have been dull. There were fifty-one new additions offered to the Council during the year 1888, con- 
taining 3,493 lots. These new plats were for the most part a subdivision of previously platted 
property. There have been few additions platted away out. 




32 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 

Minneapolis does all her voting once in two years, spring elections having been abolished by 
charter amendments two years ago, and all voting for Municipal, County, State and National officials 
concentrated at the biennial election held on the second Tuesday in November of the even numbered 
years. This gives the community political peace each alternate year, tends to greatly simplify the 
political system and political issues, avoids the expense, the confusion and the business disturbance 
incident to annual or semi-annual elections, encourages the average, well-meaning citizen to attend to 
his political duties and familiarize himself with the questions to be passed upon, and the character of 
the candidates to be voted for, and dwarfs the importance, diminishes the pernicious activity, and largely 
destroys the occupation of that superfluous patriot, the local professional politician. 

The municipal legislature consists of a single body known as the City Council. Each alderman 
receives a salary of $6c a month, and the mayor a salary of $2,000 a year. There are four municipal 
boards — the Board of Park Commissioners, the Library Board, the Board of Education and the Board of 
Police Commissioners — the first three being elective by the people and the last-named elective by the 
City Council. The mayor of the city is also ex-o^cio a member and president of the police commission, 
and not more than two of the four elective members of the police commission can legally be members 
of the same political party. All three of the municipal boards named are organized on a non-partisan 
basis. 

Saloons in Minneapolis pay an annual license of $1,000 each, and are confined to a narrow strip of 
territory along the river banks, in the business district. Approximately one-twelfth of the geographical 
extent of the city is within the saloon section, and eleven-twelfths exempt. Obviously a leading and a 
most beneficient result of the system is to free the entire residence portions of the city from the 
presence or proximity of drinking places, and their usual demoralizing annexes and environments. The 
system prevents the establishment of schools of vice among the homes of the people, and gives a degree 
of public order and safety not otherwise approachable. It is an interesting economic fact that this 
measure greatly reduces the aggregate of actual drinking in the city, the decrease probably reaching 
forty per cent. — showing that the removal of drinking facilities and temptations, even to a moderate 
distance, keeps thousands away from the saloons, and especially deters the young from forming the 
drink habit. 

MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS. 

The city authorities have for years been bothered to keep pace with the city's growth in the matter 
of public improvement. Six years ago there was not a foot of pavement in the city and scarcely any- 
thing worthy the name of a sewer system. The water department was equally crude. The record 
sinnce then has been one of tremendous activity in the attempt to catch up and keep up. The attempt 
has been fairly successful, and Minneapolis is now as well equipped with public improvements as any 
city of its size and age in the country. 

There are now twenty miles of paved streets in the city, sixteen miles of cedar block and four of 
granite. The total cost has been $794,208. The total length of sewers in the city is forty-six miles. 
These figures do not include the great central sewer tunnel, now approaching completion, or the tunnel 
in Northern Minneapolis. 

HE.\LTH, POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS. 

The health department is well organized and active, and the sanitary welfare of the city is carefully 
guarded. 

The police system is capable and energetic, and Minneapolis is among the most orderly of the 
large cities of the United States. 




CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 33 

The Minneapolis fire department is one of the best equipped and best organized in the United 
States. The equipment of the department is as follows: Six first-size fire steamers, eight second-size 
steamers and one in reserve. Seventeen hose carriages and two in reserve, six chemicals and one 
in reserve, five trucks and one in reserve, three 
supply wagons and one in reserve, and four bug- 
gies. The Gamewell system of fire alarm, which 
is the best in the world, now consists of i66 sheet 
boxes, ten circuit repeaters, 112 miles of wire and 
470 cells of battery to run it. During 18S8 there 
were 402 fire alarms. The loss by fire was $201, 
215, and the insurance on the property $778,300. 

TR.\N.SIT FACILITIES. 

During the past year the Minneapolis Street 
Railway Company has devoted more attention to 
perfecting its system than to the extension of its lines. Four miles of new track has been laid, mainly 
on the University line, making a total of sixty-three miles now in operation. There were 13,477,083 
passengers carried in 1888, and the car mileage was 2,855,041. The total number of men employed 
was six hundred and three. The total number of horses and mules employed was 1,152. 

The improvements on the motor line property lately have been mainly confined to laying a double 
track between the stations at Lake Harriet and Calhoun. The grounds of the company at Lake 
Harriet, however, were greatly improved last year, and the new pavilion or music hall was completed 
at a cost of $15,000. This lias undoubtedly had much to do with the decided increase in the number 
of passengers carried from the city to the lakes last season. The number of men employed on the 
motor line last season was one hundred and sixty-two; total miles in operation, twenty-five; number of 
passengers carried, 3,259,136. 

TEI.EPHObfE AND POST-OFFICE BUSINESS. 

The Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company has 1,600 sub- 
scribers. It uses 1,200 miles of wire. 

The rapidly growing business done by the Minneapolis Post-Office 
is an interesting index to the growth of the city. During last year 
there was an increase of over $15,000 in the net increase of the office. 
The number of pieces of mail handled in 1888 was 64,226,309. The 
money order transactions last year aggregated $1,965,680, and the num- 
ber, 168,625. I'he total receipts, including stamp sales, were in 1888, 
290,797. 

MINNEAPOLIS HOTELS. 

No city has built hotels faster than Minneapolis. There are now 
nine hostelries, capable of accommodating comfortably 2,300 guests^ 
and this capacity can be largely increased upon any special demand. 
The finest hotel is the West, with its four hundred perfectly furnished 
rooms and places for one thousand guests. The West has maintained 
the plane of excellence with which it was started. Everything is first-class. It is one of the 
interesting places of the city, and its promenades and parlors are the favorite center of 
fashionable receptions and balls. The Nicollet is the old hostelry of the city, and one of 







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34 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

the best. It has two hundred and fifty rooms and can accommodate five hundred people. The 
Windsor Hotel has been enlarged, until it now has one hundred and forty-four rooms, and is the 
third largest in the city. It is first-class in every respect, and is of the class ranging next to the West 
and Nicollet. The St. James Hotel has been made a very attractive house. It does an entirely 
transient business. The number of the rooms is sixty-four, but the accommodations are ample for a 
larger number. The National Hotel is of about the same size as the St. James. The old Clark House, 
now the Brunswick, has been modernized, and is a good house of its class. The opening of family 
hotels has been a feature in Minneapolis in the last few years. Among these are the Ardmore, which 
has been in existence over two years, and the Holmes, which occui)ies a large brick block on Hennepin 
Avenue and Eighth Street. It has one hundred and forty rooms. 

THE thp;aters. 

Minneapolis is one of the best show towns in the United States. It has three n\odern ground- 
floor opera houses, two older amusement temples, and a large museum. The Grand Opera House is 
one of the finest places of amusement in the United States. It was never designed for a business specu- 
lation, but savored more of a public enterprise. Although a separate structure, the Grand is a part of 
the splendid property known as the Syndicate Block. The growth of the city in population and dramatic 
taste has been so rapid, however, that the Grand has not been a losing venture, and has paid a modest 
rate of interest on the money invested. 

The oldest theater in Minneapolis is the Pence Opera House, built in 1857, by J. W. Pence, who is 
still its owner. The house was regarded with open-eyed wonder by the natives of that early day, and 
was "rented to strolling players" rather than to star combinations. 

The Bijou Opera House, formerly the "People's Theatre," is ably managed by Jacob Litt. The 
house was finished and opened in August, 1887, and, having an elegant interior and sumptuous furnish- 
ings, it very nat\irally leaped into instantaneous popularity. TheBijou Theater was built to supply a 
demand for a ground-floor house with a greater seating capacity, modern comforts and popular prices. 
The Hennepin Avenue Opera House was a still later venture, and owing to the present manager, Mr. 
Harris, who came into possession of the house last spring, it is now a great success. It is a beautiful 
house, and one of the most popular and best patronized places of amusement in the city. 

The attractions which are presented in these places of entertainment comprise the best in the 
various classes of amusement enterprises which the United States aff'ords. All the noted singers and 
actors drawn hither by the high reputation that Minneapolis people have attained as patrons of good 
shows, find their way here about once a year. During the two or three years last past several dramatic 
organizations of national fame have opened their traveling seasons here. The standing of Minneapolis 
as a show town is a good thing in two ways. It brings here the best that is going in the way of travel- 
ing companies, thus enlivening the existence of residents who enjoy the recreation which the theater 
affords; and it makes the city more fascinating to people from the surrounding country who come in to 
purchase goods, thus helping to cement the pleasant relations between them and their favorite 
metropolis. 

THE MINNEAPOLIS INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION. 

The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition, established in 1886, gives annual exhibitions, which are 
prominent among the amusement as well the educational institutions of the city. The Exposition 
building is one of the largest and finest of all the structures of its class in the country. It occupies 
a most commanding site, within less than half a mile of the business center of Minneapolis, is 
reached by street cars from every quarter, and is within a few minutes' walk of every railway station in 



Cirr OF MINNEAPOLIS. 35 

the city, besides having its own station within the grounds. The Art Gallery is separated from the main 
building by a glass covered court (used for the exhibition of sculpture and casts) and contains fourteen 
rooms, perfectly lighted, which, together with four large rooms in the basement, makes a building second 
to none, and equal to any in 
the country for the purpose 
intended. 

A CITY OF CHURCHES. 

Nearly one hundred and 
fifty church spires rise above 
the din and hubbub of this big, 
busy city, in silent, [eloquent 
testimony to the fact that the 
Minneapolitan does not wor- 
ship Mammon alone and alto- 
gether. On the contrary, 
they have evidence to prove 
that he has put into his relig- 
ious enterprises the same rest- 
less progressiveness that is 
apparent everywhere else. 
During the last seven or eight 
years there have been or- 
ganized each year an average 
of ten new churches, and the 
building records have shown 
an annual expenditure for 
church improvements of from 
$150,000 to $300,000. The 
double duty has been imper- 
ative of planting young 
churches in newly-developed 
centers of population, and 
replacing small and oM-fash- 
ioned buildings in the old 
centers with large and fine 
houses of worship. 

Chief among the first con- 
cerns of a large class of peo- 
ple in a city, and those seek- 
ing new homes, is the church 
facilities of the point to which they contemplate removmg. Every man of family wishes his 
children to be educated under Christian influences, and desires the best church advantages for himself 
and family. In its churches Minneapolis is far in advance of most cities of even larger population. 
The church membership is growing at the rate of 30 per cent, a year, more rapidly in proportion than 
population, which is accounted for in the fact that as a city grows older, the increment of population is 




>TREEr Scenes. — from 



_-RDAV SrECTATOR. 



36 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

more largely composed of men of families, who are church-goers to a greater extent than those who 
comprise the advance stages of a city's population. 

The church organizations of MinneapoHs doubtless contribute more money to works of benevolence 
in proportion to the membership than those of any other city west of New York. As an index to the 
amount contributed, the Plymouth Congregational may be cited. The philanthropic work of the church 
is very extensive. The Bethel day nursery, where mothers leave their children while they go out to 
work, is an institution of the church. The church supports two kindergarten schools, with two teachers 
and loo pupils, at a cost of $2,500. Three evening schools, a reading room and coffee room are among 
the philanthropic institutions of the church. The church alone supports five missions at home and 
abroad, and the benevolent gifts of its individual members rank the highest of any Congregational Church 
in the United States. During the past year gifts of this character amounted to $100,000. Other 
denominations make equally liberal contributions. 

Minneapolis at present has 146 church and mission edifices. They are denominationally divided 
as follows : 

Adventist 2 Friends ,..,,.. . . 2 

Baptist 18 Hebrew 2 

Catholic 13 Lutheran 27 

Christian i Methodist Episcopal 2i 

Congi-egationalist 9 Methodist, African 2 

Congregationalist Branches 9 People's I 

Disciples I Presbyterian 16 

Episcopal 10 Swedenborgian i 

Episcopal Missions 3 Unitarian 2 

Evangelical Associations 2 Universalist 4 

The total membership at the close of 1888 approximated 32,000. The aggregate value of Minne- 
apolis church property approximates $5,000,000, and the number and beauty of structures entitle the 
city to be called the Brooklyn of the West. 

Minneapolis boasts of one of the most active Young Men's Christian Associations in the United 
States. The association at all times keeps in the field seventeen aggressive committees, . and by perse- 
verance has been enabled to accomplish a great deal during the past year. At present the organization 
has headquarters in the Syndicate Block, on Nicollet Avenue, but work is progressing rapidly upon one 
of the finest association buildings in the country, to cost $130,000, which will be standing evidence of 
their activity. The total membership is 1,194. The average daily attendance at the rooms this year 
was 212. There are five branches and departments. 

The officers of the association are: President, David C. Bell; Vice-Presidents, John T. Barnum, 
B. F. Nelson; Recording Secretary, Edward Savage; Treasurer, F. A. Chamberlain; Assistant, G. N. 
Atterbury. 

The charitable institutions of Minneapolis are worthy of the wealth and Christian culture of the 
community. 

EDUCATIONAL IN.STITUTIONS. 

The University of Minnesota is situated in Minneapolis, on the east bank of the Mississippi River. 
The grounds are about forty-five acres in extent and possess great natural beauty. The University 
buildings are spacious and sightly structures. The public school system of Minneapolis is among the 
finest in the United States. 

An educational institution that deserves special mention is Stryker Seminary in St. Anthony Park, 
midway between St. Paul and Minneapolis. Hourly trains on the Manitoba Short Line stop at St. 



CITT OF MINNEAPOLIS. 37 

Anthony Park Station, and in cold or stormy weather pupils from the two cities are conveyed to and 
from the depot. The new building is full of comfort. It is elegantly situated on a bluff commanding a 
view of Minneapolis, and all the Park region. There are two acres of ground, affording room for lawn 
tennis, croquet and other sports. Stryker Seminary is a select Home School for young ladies. Boarding 
pupils are limited to twenty. Health, morals, manners and mental training are carefully attended to. 
Each pupil receives special attention, and each is made happy. Motherless girls, and those who are 
delicate and sensitive, and young ladies who are backward in their studies are cared for as each requires. 
This school has had great success in cases like these, while those of strong brawn and brain have by 
individual treatment made rapid progress. In several instances the remark has been made "Our daughter 
has learned as much from your instruction in one year, as she did in three years in other schools." 








1ms SriFgKBl^' SS^'-*^'^ St.JVnlhopyferli Aim-. 



Stryker Seminary commenced in the fall of 1884 with ten pupils. It has since had a steady and 
healthy growth. It claims to be equal in its advantages to any school in the country. 
The following testimonials have been given : 

From Ex-Gov. John S. Pillsbury, Minneapolis — 

"I cannot but believe that with your new location and suitable buildings, which I am glad to see you are to have, that 
the facilities which you will oiTer to the young will be fully equal or superior to any offered in this State. " 

From Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, I). D., Brooklyn— 

"Rev. Peter Stryker, D. D., inherits from his father, who gave his life to the instruction of the young, thesr equisites of 
mind and heart. Parents may put their children under his care, knowing they will have the best literary and moral advan- 
tages. Stryker Seminary, situated in a beautiful and healthful region, opens with the good wishes of the twin cities of Min- 
nesota. I expect for the institution a prosperity corresponding with the wonderful growth of those cities." 

Similar testimonials have been received from Gov. Merriani, Dr. Herrick Johnson of Chicago, 
Postmaster-General Wanamaker, and others. 

A full corps of instructors is connected with the school. Rev. Peter Stryker, D. D., is President, 
Rev. Dr. Stryker and Miss Anna K. Stryker, are associate principals. 



38 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

The Board of Advisors consists of Rev. D. J. Burrell, D. D., Rev. Chas. F. Thwing, D. D., Rev. 
John P. Stafford, U. D., Hon. Ell Torrance, Mr. Charles H. Pratt, Prof. Carl V. Lachmund (Music), 
Douglas Volk (Art), Minneapolis; Rev. R. F. Maclaren, Rev. S. G. Smith, D. D., Hon. A. R. McGill, 
H. Knox Taylor, A. G. Postlethwaite, B. F. Wright, J. R. McMurran, St. Paul. 

Stryker Seminary reprints the following references : Hon. Alex. Ramsey, formerly Governor of 
Minnesota, St. Paul; Hon. D. M. Clough, Senator of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Hon. John Wanamaker, 
Postmaster-General, Washington, D. C. ; Hon. H. L. Humphrey, Circuit Judge, Hudson, Wis.; Hon. 

Elliott F. Shephard, New York City, N. Y. ; Rev. Cyrus 
Foss, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of M. E. Church, Philadel- 
phia; Rev. Howard Crosby, D. D., LL. D., New York 
City, N. Y. ; Rev. David R. Breed, D. D., Chicago; Isaac 
Staples, Stillwater, Minn. ; Rev. Robert Christie, D. D., 
St Paul, Minn.; Rev. M. D. Edwards, St.. Paul, Minn.; 
. E. E. Wells, Minneapolis, Minn. ; Rev. R. N. 
\(lams, D. D., Minneapolis, Minn.; Rev. George W. 
Merrill, Minneapolis, Minn.; Mr. Thomas Cochran, 
ji , St. Paul, Minn.; Mr. James S. Lane, Minneapolis, 
Mmn. ; Mrs. J. P. Laird, Minneapolis, Minn. 

THE NEWSPAPER PRESS. 

The newspaper press of Minneapolis is as bright and 
enterprising as might be e.xpected in a community so 
thoroughly representative of the best elements of Ameri- 
can civilization. The leading journal of the city is the 
Mmneapohs Tri/'une. A stock company, whose members 

Flml '~' \ \^\\^]\\\^U itti^^^ ''^^^^ leading Republicans of the city, purchased the busi- 

iPlf-l i'n?-5'!^%"^^Jlil| ntssof the S/^fe Atlas and Daily Chronicle in May, 

■^'^ ' I S67, and merged them into a new publication, the 7/-?- 

luiic. Whilst its efforts to furnish full telegraphic and 
other news met with a fair share of popular appreciation 
for some years, at length, in 1876, financial reverses 
compelled the relinquishment of its Associated Press 
fi-inchise, which was acquired by the St. Paul Pioneer 
Pi ess. For a time afterward that paper was conducted 
as the St. Paul and Minneapolis Pioneer Press and Tri- 
I line, rejoicing in one of the longest newspaper titles in the 
United States. The attempt thus to contol the entire field 
for daily journalism in Minneapolis aroused indignation. A 
syndicate of twelve citizens resolved to break this monopoly; obtained for a time custody of the Tribune 
property, but their efforts to revive the paper failed of any practical result, except that for a time the 
Evening Tribune competed with the consolidated Press. In May, 1880, after many delays, the Tribune 
was issued as a morning eight-page daily, devoted strictly to the interests of Minneapolis and territory 
of which she is the center, and has since obtained recognition as an exponent of them, and as one of 
the leading representatives of Western journalism. Its proprietorship has undergone several changes. 
It is now owned by Haskell & Palmer. 

The Evening Journal is another creditable journalistic representative of Minneapolis. The first 




Globe Bui 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 39 

issue of this superior publication bore date of November 2d, 1878. Started as a three-cent morning 
daily, it was sold soon after a fire which had destroyed its plant, April 6th, 1880, and from that time, 
with improved mechanical facilities, liberal expenditure and spirited business methods, has maintained 
its place as the principal evening paper of the city. It is owned by a stock company. 

The St. Paul Pioneer Press and the St. Paul Globe maintain news and advertising bureaus m 
Minneapolis, and Minneapolis departments are a prominent feature of both papers. 

The weekly, semi-monthly 
and monthly publications of 
Minneapolis are numerous, 
varied as to aim, and as a rule 
able and flourishing. 

A WALK ABOUT THE CITY. 

Minneapolis is not an un- 
broken plain, but the promi- 
nent parts of the town lie 
very level and open. It abuts 
itself picturesquely against the 
curving Mississippi. The 
"Eastern visitor," remarks 
Joel Benton, is drifted in 
very close sight of this stream 
as he closes his journey, and 
comes in under the roar and 
splendor of the Falls, or looks 
oft" at the almost canyon-like 
depth of the stream below_ 
them. It is an inspiring sight. 
The streets are wide and 
open, and they seem to have 
been waiting for your arrival. 
The sky is blue and broad. 
There is no bluff" to cast a 
shadow or to limit your view. 
The city takes you to its 
heart at once and captivates 
your own. You don't need 
to defile through crooked or narrow streets to find it. Its jjhysiognomy is tonic and bracing, and warrants 
high expectations, whicTi are amply fulfilled by a visit, and confirmed the longer you remain. The city 
broadens out to the lakes of famous summer resorts. It is redolent of legend and poem. Over its 
space the wonderful exploits of Hiawatha took place. Here Longfellow's imagination wandered to 
work out one of its most charming creations. What other city would not give away half its present 
renown to have so fine a falls as those of St. Anthony, on one side, and so poetic and beautiful a feature 
as Minnehaha — the Falls of Laughing Water, on the other? 

MINNEAPOLIS ARCHITECTURE. 

That a city depends largely for its beauty upon its architecture is surely true, whether its streets 
are built up compactly with brick and stone or have the additional attraction of garden and foliage. 




Lnion' Le.\gue, from "S.\turdav Stectator. " 



40 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

Minrfeapolis is exceptionally well located, naturally, for a large and beautiful city. The land is suffici- 
ently level for its business portion, and its compact residence portion, and there is room to grow for 
many years to come, without expensive grading to prepare the way. Thanks to the long-headedness of 
those who laid out the city, and more especially to the energy and good taste of those who have pro- 
jected and laid out our system of parks and boulevards, we are preparing a setting worthy of the purest 
gems, in the way of buildings, that architects may conceive of, or the people accept and produce. The 
bluffs along the western part of the city should be, and will be, the finest residence portion of the city; 
and what has been a wall of woods is rapidly becoming the most beautiful part of the city and the most 
healthy. 

Our office buildings, stores, churches and dwellings compare favorably with other cities and are 
models of convenience in being fitted with the latest modern appliances for comfort and the despatch of 
business. All Minneapolis buildings of importance, if not thoroughly fireproof, are sufficiently slow 

n, burning to <be safe under 



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been assured at the same time that 



ordinary conditions with 
watchful care. 

More than one hundred 
churches of all denomina- 
tions attest the moral char- 
acter of the city, and 
l^laces of refined amuse- 
in e n t abound. Fine 
streets, bordered with 
handsome trees, and 
broad avenues lined with 
beautiful residences, dis- 
tinguish the city. A system 
of parks and boulevards, 
second to none, has been 
inaugurated, the former 
accessible to all portions 
of the city, the latter offer- 
ing the finest drive, and 
her beauties have been 



thus the health of the city has 
preserved. 

No city in the Northwest possesses more elegant public buildings than Minneapolis. The West 
Hotel, built at a cost of $1,500,000, is the finest hostelry in America, the Chamber of Commerce, the 
Masonic Temple, the Public Library Building, the Boston Block, the Loan and Trust Building, the 
Court House, the Guaranty Loan Building and the New York Life Building, are types of architectural 
beauty and lasting monuments to the solid spirit of Minneapolis enterprise. The great Industrial 
Exposition Building, representing half a million of money raised off-hand by the people of the city, 
crowns the high bluff on the east side, and by its proportions and the history of its unrivaled achieve- 
ments, attracts the wonder and admiration of the stranger and the citizen alike. 

SOME OF THE BIG BUILDINGS. 

Considering the briefness of the time since Minneapolis was the haunt of the red man, the number 
of massive buildings which she contains is wonderful. Structures from seven to twelve stories in 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 41 

height, built of granite, elaborately adorned, and furnished with steam-heating apparatus, hydraulic 
elevators, and other modern conveniences, they are buildings of which even New York might be proud, 
and their presence in Minneapolis impresses the most casual visitor, as well as the inhabitants of the 
city and close students of the development of American cities in general. It impresses that hard- 
headed and practical class of people, the investors in real estate, and gives them assurance that Minne- 
apolis is not a mushroom metropolis, but a city with a great future, which is being builded with reference 
to its manifest destiny. 

Following is a partial list of prominent buildings in Minneapolis which cost $100,000 each or over: 



Court House $2,000,0 

West Hotel 

Guaranty Loan Buildimg 

Pillsbury "A" mill 

New York Life Building 

Nicollet House 

Oneida Block 

Olobe Building 

Wright Block 

Mutual Block 

C.len Block 



1,600,000 
1,250,000 
1,100,000 
1,000,000 



185,000 
140,000 



200,000 



Post-office .$ 700,000 

Exposition 350,000 

Science Hall 125,000 

Library building ., 190,000 

Soldiers' Home.....^ 100,000 

State University 150,000 

Chamber of Commerce 285,000 

Temple Court 250,000 

Masonic Temple 300,000 

City market house 225,000 

Public Library 250,000 

Hennepin Avenue Theater 140,000 

Stillman Block 200,000 

Orphan Asylum 125,000 

House of Good Shepherd 200,000 

Loan and Trust Company 125,000 

Lumber Exchange 250,000 

Builders' Exchange 100,000 

K. of L. building 100,000 

Hall Lumber Company '. 100,000 

Bank of Commerce 185,000 

Union elevator 375,000 

Minneapolis & Pacific elevator 118,000 

St. Anthony elevator i54iOOO 

Boston Block 200,000 

Edison Electric Light 100,000 

Kasota Block 100,000 



Langdon Block 120,000 

Central Block 150,000 

Syndicate Block 600,000 

Gates' tenements 125,000 

Lowry's residence 100,000 

Eastman & Cook's mill 100,000 

Soo shops 145,000 

North Side pump .station 214,000 

Buel tenement 100,000 

Washburn "A" mill 750,000 

Washburn "B" mill ." 500,000 

Christian & Co.'s mill 100,000 

High School building roo,ooo 

Church of Dominican Fathers 100,000 

Zier tenement 100,000 

Mead tenement 100,000 

Y. M. C. .•\. building 125,000 

The most magnificent and costly of the buildings now in course of erection, and the most 
exjiensive building in the Northwest, is the new court house. Externally this building will be very 
elaborate and ornamental; it will be 290 feet square, with a court 130 feet square, and the principal 
entrances will be on Fourth and Fifth Streets. There will be an ornamental tower 300 feet in height on 
the Fourth Street side. The building will be four stories above the basement and surrounded by an 
attic story and roof off handsome design. There will be five stories on the court side, which will have 
a fiat roof. 

Ne.xt in magnitude comes the Guaranty Loan & Trust Company's office building adjoining the new 
post-office. The materials used in this building are iron and stone ; it will be twelve stories high, with a 
tower and lookout rising two stories above the twelfth, the whole surmounted by a lofty staff. The lot 
is 132 by 13s feet and the building will occupy it entire, with the exception of a passageway on the post- 
office side. There will be about twenty-seven offices on each floor, or about 320 offices in all. The 
first floor is designed for banks and financial institutions. The finish will be very costly and elaborate. 



42 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

The New York Life Insurance Company's building, on Fifth Street and Second Avenue South, will 
be ten stories high, fireproof, throughout, and will be finished in the finest style of modern architecture. 

Next in consequence is the Masonic Temple, on Hennepin Avenue and Sixth Street. The material 
used is blue Ohio sand-stone, and it will be eight stories high, with a front of 88 feet on Hennepin by 
15s on Sixth Street. The building will be entirely fireproof, with all the modern improvements. 

The National Bank of Commerce Block, recently finished, is a beautiful, six-story brown granite 
building, fireproof, and containing all modern improvements. It is located on the corner of Fourth 
Street and First Avenue South. 

one of the most beautiful structures recently erected. It is 
of brick and stone, eight 



The G/i'fie Block on Fourth Stree 

03 



C^Sks9 




stories high, and fire-|)roof 
The building is enclosed 
and will be uged for office 
purposes. 

The Co-Operative Block 
is a stately nine-story brick 
and granite building, ad- 
joining the Kasota Block 
on Hennepin Avenue. It 
is fire-proof and supplied 
with all modern conve- 
niences. 

nature's beauty spots. 

One feature about Min- 
neapolis worthy of more 
than passing mention, is 
the number of lakes and 
othei pleasure resorts with- 
in the city limits. Here 
iLst and recreation may 
found in the summer, 
and an abundant oppor- 
Emanuel Baptist Church. ju„ity fo, exhilarating 

sport is offered in the winter. There are three lakes of considerable size within the city limits and 
within four miles of the business center. There are almost innumerable ponds and other bodies of 
water, but the three of any considerable size — Lake Calhoun, Lake Harriet and Lake of the Isles — 
are all full-fledged lakes and very picturesque. The motor service brings these resorts within a very 
short distance of the business portion, and as the population increases and the cottages reach out into 
the suburbs, these charming sheets of water are rapidly losing their identity as summer resorts. 

The largest of this trio is Lake Calhoun, located about three miles from the down town terminus of 
the motor line. Its shaded shores are rapidly becoming dotted with cottages. Its waters are deep and 
clear, affording excellent bathing in summer, and good skating in winter. 

Lake Harriet, situated a mile beyond Calhoun, is a picturesque body of water. In days gone by, 
when Minneapolis people regarded the trip as an excursion, this lake was a favorite picnic ground, but 
now that the intervening space has become populated, it seems like going from one part of the city to- 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 



43 



another, and Minnetonka has, to a large degree, usurped Lake Harriet's place as a picnic ground. 
The drive around the lake is a charming feature, and in summer it is the Mecca toward which owners of 
speedy horses turn their faces. 



The Lake of the Isles may properly be desig- 
nated as in the heart of the city, for it is nearly 
surrounded with cottages and fine residences. 
In summer the avenues along its shores form 
delightful drives. Owing to its central location, 
the Lake of the Isles is resorted to by throngs 
of people during the skating season. The motor 
and horse car lines go within a few blocks of it. 

Another point of interest within the city 
limits, and within a few minutes' ride of the bus- 
iness portion, is the spot made famous by Long- 
fellow. Minnehaha Falls might never be re- 
garded as grand, for there is seldom sufficient 
water to render it such, but to one standing on 
the banks below the Falls, there is something about the scene that is 




Scene in Central Park. 



picturesque that it does not 
seem strange that the poet found sufficient inspiration for those beautiful gems of word painting 
familiar to every schoolboy. On an eminence near the Falls is located the Soldiers' Home, and it 
is truly a beautiful place, in which the battle-scarred veterans can spend their declining years. 

These are but a few of the thousand and one beautiful spots which environ the city of Minneapolis. 
Added to these are the numerous boulevards and pleasant drives in and about the city. It is no doubt 
owing to these natural attractions that Minneapolis has come to be regarded as the city of conventions. 
A national convention is often tedious and tiresome, but it would be a peculiar delegate who did not 
look forward with anticipation of a large amount of pleasure attendant upon their annual gatherings in 
this city. Owing to the attractions of Minneapolis in this respect, she has been particularly fortunate 

in securing these gatherings, and in the past 
five years a large number of national con- 
entions have been held here. 

THE PARK SYSTEM. 

While really far from full development, 
the park system of Minneapolis is a marvel, 
and a source of great pride. It is only six 
years since any move for. park improve- 
ments was attempted. In April, 1883, a 
1 oard of park commissioners, consisting of 
fifteen members, was organized, pursuant to 
an act of the Legislature. Hon. Chas. M. 
Loring was chosen president. 

While the board elected at that time has 
accomplished wonders, yet the gradually 
developing beauty which nature will bestow upon the system is hardly noticeable as compared 
with the promised magnificence of future years. 

Including the land acquired during the year, the board now controls a park area (land and lake) 




44 



RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 



of about 1,045 acres, and over thirteen miles of parkways, and when the system is complete, will have 
more than twenty, for which it will have paid less than one third of the present valuation, a large por- 
tion of which will be re- 
ceived back in the shape of 
park assessments, and a lar- 
5^er portion of which is to 
be so returned to the board, 
the assessments being distrib- 
uted into ten equal parts, 
lyable in as many years. 
The comptroller estimates the 
present market value of the 
lands included in the Minne- 
apolis park system, but not 
nicluding Hennepin, Lyndale 
ind Kenwood boulevards 
(which are used as public 
streets), at upward of $1,500, 
000, an estimate which may be 
classed as conservative. 

The acreage of the var- 
ious parks (including lake) 
IS as follows : Lake of the 
Isles, 161.00; Lake Harriet, 
415.00; Lake Calhoun, 406. 
33; Central, 33.50; Pros- 
pect, 20.52; Riverside, 19.- 
78, Washburn, .10.08; Moul- 
ton, 10.00; Elliot, 4.00; Mur- 
phy, 3-33; Hawthorn, 1.13; 
sundry small parks, 8.50. 

The length in miles of the 
parkways or boulevards un- 
der control of the board are 
as follows: Lake of the Isles, 
3.57; Lake Harriet, 3.50 
Hennepin Avenue, 1.33 
Lyndale, 1.80; Stinson, i.oo 
Kenwood, 1.75; Central 
Park, 0.35; Dean, i.io. 




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Buildings, Universit\ 




TflE STATE OF f^Ij^jSESOTA 



The location of Minnesota is very nearly the center of the American continent, and equidistant 
from the shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific. The Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba 
bound it on the north, the Red River and the Territory of Dakota on the west, Iowa on the south, and 
the Mississippi River and Lake Superior on the east. It has an area of 84,287 square miles, or about 
54,760,000 acres, and is therefore larger than the six New England States and nearly equal to Indiana 
and Illinois combined. Its greatest length, from north to south, is 380 miles, and its greatest extension, 
east and west, 350 miles. It lies betwfen latitude 43° 30' and 49° 27', and between longitude 89° 29' 
and 97° 12'. Except the mountain districts, it is the highest land on the continent, and the sources 
of the three great water courses of North America are within its borders. Its mean elevation above 
the ocean level is 1,200 feet. Though far from the sea, it is the best watered State in the Union, 
having, besides numerous rivers, upward of 700 lakes, varying from fifty yards to thirty miles in diameter. 
Prof. Maury, in his^ofificial report to the Government, says: "There is in this State a greater number of 
these lovely sheets of laughing water than in all the country besides. They give variety and beauty to 
the landscape ; they soften the air and lend all their thousand charms and attractions to make this 
goodly land a lovely place of residence. " The climate is one of the healthiest in the world. The 
natural resources are rich and varied, inviting the agriculturist, the miner and the manufacturer, and 
crowning their easy labors with rich reward. Within the past few years settlers have poured into the 
country north and west of it, and its admirable transportation facihties have made it the center of an 
extensive and profitable commerce. 

TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES. 

There are no mountains in Minnesota, and the height of its loftiest hills is not above 300 feet. It 
has none of the disadvantages of a mountainous region, though possessing most of the peculiarities of 
such localities that are beneficial to mankind. For instance, its elevation above the sea gives it that 
purity of atmosphere for which mountainous countries are esteemed, and the rapid descent of its 
numerous streams from the high plateaus to the beds of its great rivers affords an incalculable amount 
of hydraulic force, which is diffused throughout its entire extent. And, moreover, these are not only 
susceptible of inexpensive improvement in most cases, making them available in the fullest measure, 
but are easily approachable. The water courses, which form fully two-thirds of the boundary lines, 
except less than a fourth part of their extent, are navigable for ordinary river steamers, and so are 



46 HE SOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

several of the interior rivers and laltes. On the Mississippi, St. Croix and Red River, and some of the 
interior lakes and streams, steamers are now constantly plying during the summer seasons, while Lake 
Superior is coursed in every direction by steam and sail vessels of the heaviest tonnage. 

The surface of the State is a high plain, sloping to the northwest north of a curved line drawn from 
the head of Lake Traverse, passing south of Red and Vermillion Lakes, and through the international 
boundary from the northwest corner of Cook County ; and more gently to the southeast of that line. 
This surface is plowed into furrows of 200 to 800 feet in depth and several miles in width by its large 
rivers, and seamed in all directions by smaller streams. The only flat lands are on or near the summits 
of the elevations, or in the bottoms of the valleys bordering the streams. The valleys are generally so 
much lower than the high lands as to afford sufficient natural drainage for nearly all localities in the 
State. There are few rocky formations to be met with. The lakelets are mostly crowded together upon 
the summits of the heights, and are the sources of the innumerable streams, which meander in every 

direction along the higher levels and ultimately 
finding paths down the slopes, afford an incalcul- 
able aggregate of water power, of which nearly 
every neighborhood has amply sufficient for its 
local needs. The Mississippi, St. Louis, Red, 
Rainy Lake, St. Croix and Minnesota Rivers, 
have, also, more or less waterfalls, those of the 
Mississippi, at Minneapolis, being the largest, 
which furnish power for great aggregations of 
machinery, and about which manufacturing cen- 
ters are rapidly forming, as the development of 
the country progresses. St. Anthony Falls afford 
125,000 horse-power, St. Croix River, in the 
vicinity of Taylor's Falls, 100,000; St. Louis 
Wasiiingion r\RK River, near itsmouth, 95,000; Red River, at Fer- 

gus Falls, 35,000; Minnesota River, near Granite Falls, 25,000, and a score or more of other falls and 
rapids upwards of 20,000 horse-power each. Most of these are susceptible of inexpensive improvement 
and are easy of approach for rail or wagon roads. The State Fish Commissioners have planted fresh 
water salmon in many of the lakes, and the experiment has so far been entirely successful. 

SOME METEOROLOGICAL DATA. 

The atmosphere of Minnesota is dry, clear and pure, and it is seldom that a refreshing breeze is 
not felt even on the stillest summer day. The nights of summer, almost without exception, are cool, so 
as to afford opportunity for refreshing sleep; and, although the days are frequently very warm, the heat 
is rarely oppressive, as is the case where humid atmospheres prevail. The winters are cold, sometimes 
severely so; but it is seldom, and only for short intervals, that the term "inclement" can properly be 
applied to Minnesota weather. The dryness of the air diminishes its capability of conducting heat from 
the body, and men and animals, therefore, suffer much less here from cold than where there is even a 
slightly greater proportion of dampness. People work at out-door employments without discomfort 
when the thermometer ranges from zero to ten or twelve degrees below. 

Minnesota's "big woods." 

Fully one-third of the surface of Minnesota is covered by forests and woodlands, and as much as 
one-eighth more by natural groves, fringes of timber along streams, oak openings and brush lands. In 




OITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 



47 



the earlier settled prairie portions there are also many planted groves, the aggregate area of which is 
\ery considerable, and many of them have already become sources of fuel supply. 

In the northern range of counties there are forests of white pine which cover probably one-fourth 
of the entire area. Interspersed among these, especially along the valleys of streams and on the margins 
of the larger lakes, although they are sometimes found on the higher plateaus, are belts or patches of 
deciduous forests hardly less in aggregate extent than the pine-covered areas. The varieties of trees 
found here embrace white, black and burr oak; red, rock and swamp elm; white, black and gray ash; 
hackberry, sugar and white maple; box-elder; linden or basswood; white and red birch; poplar; willow; 
Cottonwood, and a few others. Wet or swamp localities occur with considerable frequency on the 
more northerly highlands, and are often covered with growths of red and white cedar, though more 
commonly with tamarack. Spruce and firs are quite prevalent in still other places, and in the vicinity 
of openings or "burnt" districts one finds mountain ash, ironwood, mountain ' maple, red and choke 
cherry, balm of Gilead, yew, arbor vita;, and other similar varieties. - Frequent intervals occur in the 
lowlands where there are natural meadows, on the margins of which, the ground being higher, nearly all 
the varieties of shrubbery found in similar situations in Northern Indiana and Ohio grow with equal 
luxuriance, and in the 
marshes, on both high and 
1 o w lands, huckleberries, 
blueberries, cranberries and 
wild rice are produced 
abundantly. In addition to 
these features, there are all 
through these counties, as well 
as in other wooded parts o 
the State, small, dry prairies 
and tractsfrom which the forest 
trees have been burned off 
These sometimes contain 
50,000 acres, or even more 
and again are limited to less 
than a single section ; man\ 
of them are covered with an 
excellent growth of bhn_ 
joint, red-top, or buffal 
grass, while others are iiai 
tially or wholly overgrown 
with various species of wild 
shrubbery, amongst which a 
variety called "jack oak" 
usually predominates. Again 

there are extensive localities where only large, black or burr oak trees with wide-spreading tops and 
scarcely any undergrowth are found, which are known as "oak openings." Gooseberries, currants and 
black and red raspberries are usually abundant among the shrubbery of these openings, and wild straw 
berries abound everywhere except in the densest forest, swamps or low meadow lands. 

Nearly all the region west of the Mississippi and north of the Minnesota River, properly belongs to 
the forest district. The trees which cover it are mostly of the deciduous family. 





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RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 



THE FERTILE PRAIRIES. 

The prairie counties properly are Kittson, Marshall, Polk, Norman, Clay, Wilkin, Traverse, Grant, 
Stevens, Pope, Big Stone, Swift, Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville, McLeod, Sibley and Nicollet, on the 
north side of the Minnesota River; Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine, Lincoln, Lyon, Redwood, Brown, 
Pipestone, Murray, Cottonwood, Watonwan, Rock, Nobles, Jackson, Martin, Freeborn, Faribault, 
Mower, Dakota, Goodhue, Wabasha, Olmsted and Dodge, south of that river; and Ramsey and Wash- 
ington on the east side of the Mississippi. All the others contain woodland enough to entitle them to 
rank rather as timbered than prairie counties, and in all of those named above there are more or less 
groves and fringes of timber ; those farthest west and south being more nearly treeless. Owing to the 
undulating character of the prairies, the natural drainage is admirable. The farmer seldom has to desist 
from tilling his land longer than a few hours after a rainfall, because of the ground being too wet, for, 
between the absorbent character of the soil and the conformation of the surface, the water speedily dis- 
appears. At the same time there is rarely 
occasion to complain of the opposite ex- 
treme, for the ground retains moisture a 
ling time and never becomes baked and 
rusted. 

The undulating character of the Minne- 
ota prairie also gives them the charm of 
licturesqueness. Another prominent fea- 
ure of their beauty and attractiveness is 
r verdure. Most luxuriant grasses and 
a great variety of beautiful flowers cover 
them during the entire summer season. 
The grasses comprise several varieties, 
among which are included the blue grass, 
so justly prized for grazing, and the blue- 
joint and red-top, which yield hay equal to 
that made from the best cultivated varieties. 




Park Boulevard, at 42d Street. 



These, with the pure water that is abundant in every section, fit them pre-eminently for grazing, and, 
already, the herds of cattle that are pastured upon them enliven and add to the attractiveness of the 
country. 

THE SOIL AND ITS PRODUCTS. 

The soil of Minnesota ranks with the most fertile in the world. The upper layer of the drift 
deposit forms the soil of all parts of the State, except that in the vicinity of Lake Superior and near 
the Mississippi River, in the southeast corner of the State. In the latter locality the soil is a mold of 
similar composition with that of Ohio. The depth of the soil varies from one to five feet, and nearly 
everywhere the subsoil is not only similar in its elements, but equally fertile when exposed to the 
influence of the atmosphere. It is made up largely of alumina, silica and lime, mixed with various 
mineral salts, and contains considerable percentages of ammonia and phosphorous in divers combina- 
tions. It is, likewise, filled with vegetable and animal matter, and these combinations of organic 
remains, with the varied bases, giving it an abundant supply of fertilizing properties. In appearance the 
soil is of dark to grayish brown color, being darkest in the lower plains and valleys, where it occasion- 
ally approaches to blackness, and is quite viscous when wet. It is everywhere exceedingly friable, and 
so easily worked that a hoe is not needed in the corn or potato field. 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 49 

The best test of the soil, however, is its record of averages of cultivated vegetable products. The 
statistical reports of crops, published by the State, which are known to be from twelve to twenty per 
cent, less than the actual results, give the following mean averages of the staple crops, from a term of 
thirteen years, ending with 1882, viz. : Wheat, 14.09 bushels; corn, 30.51 bushels; oats, 32.14 bushels; 
barley, 24.26 bushels; rye, 15.21 bushels; buckwheat, 11.78 bushels; potatoes, 98.29 bushels; and 
beans, 11.37 bushels per acre. When it is remembered that these are general averages, from a territory 
extending through five and a half degrees of latitude and five and a third of longitude, it must be 
admitted that they make a good showing. Instances might be gathered from almost every county in 
which farming is carried on wherein all of these averages are largely exceeded. Yields of upward of 20 
bushels of wheat, 40 bushels of corn, 45 bushels of oats, 30 bushels of barley, 22 bushels of rye, 15 
bushels of buckwheat, 150 bushels of potatoes, and 16 bushels of beans, are quite common, and, indeed, 
every careful farmer in the State would show these or greater general averages for a term of ten to 
twelve years. 

DIVERSITY OF CROPS. 

It is only within the past few years that Minnesota farmers have attempted to diversify their crops. 
Wheat was their great staple production, although large quantities of corn also have been grown. 
Until within a few years, however, wheat was about the only grain that was in constant demand for 
cash, and, as the latter was a commodity that the farmers stood in need of, they devoted their labor 
chiefly to the production of wheat, in order to be sure of speedy returns. The census gives the pro- 
duction of the several crops in bushels as follows, viz. : 

Ckoi's. i860. 1S70. iSSo. 

Whe.it 2,186,993 18,866,073 34,601,030 

Rye .- 121,411 78,088 2>5.245 

Oats 2,176,002 10,678,261 23,382,158 

Corn 2.941,952 4,743,117 14,831,741 

Buckwheat 28,052 52.438 4'. 756 

Barley .-. 109,668 1,032,024 2,972,965 

It will be noticed that while the wheat product increased 762 per cent, in the decade from i860 to 
1870, its increase from 1870 til! 1880 was only 83 per cent. In the meantime the yield of corn increased 
only 6t per cent, during the first and 212 per cent, during the second periods. There are several reasons 
for this, but the chief is, that the cultivation of wheat was the most profitable during the first period and 
the first four seasons of the second. About 1874, the price of wheat having declined for several years 
and that of corn advanced slightly, farmers were led to pay greater attention to the latter grain. And, 
furthermore, a disposition to diversify their farming operations and enter more largely into the growing 
of stock, which began to manifest itself at this time, rendered the more extensive cultivation of corn 
necessary. Corn is as certain a crop in Minnesota as in any other of the Northern States. Oats, rye, 
barley, buckwheat, potatoes, turnips, rutabagas, mangelwur^els, beets, carrots, parsnips, cabbages, 
pumpkins, squashes and every other field and garden crop grown anywhere north of the thirty-eighth 
parallel grow here as well and mature as fully. Besides the above mentioned crops, some ten or twelve 
thousand acres of early amber sugar-cane are grown annually in Minnesota, from which nearly a million 
gallons of syrup are manufactured, principally for use in the families of the producers, though there are 
half a score or more manufacturers in the State who place their products in market and find a ready sale 
for them. Several manufacture sugar of excellent quality from the syrup and have succeeded in mak- 
ing this a profitable branch of farming industry. Sugar-beets are grown in all parts of the State, from 
its southern boundary northward as far as agriculture has yet extended, except in the valley of Red 
River. Upward of 100,000 acres per annum are devoted to the cultivation of flax. This is raised 



50 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

principally for its seed, of which the yield varies from ten to sixteen bushels per acre. Upward of 
100,000 pounds of tobacco are grown each year in Minnesota, and, when properly cured and cared for, 
the quality is good. Much of it is consumed as smoking tobacco by those who cultivate it, but it is 
mostly sold to resident tobacconists, who use it in the manufacture of cigars, both as wrapjiers and 
fillings. Turnips, pumpkins, squashes and beans are also important crops. 

Not a few of the agricultural products of Minnesota are of superior excellence to those grown 
elsewhere. This is especially true of her hard Fife wheat, which makes a higher grade of flour than 
any grown further south, whether it be spring or winter wheat. In order to keep up their brands of 

flour to the highest standard, and command ready 
_____ sales and good prices, the millers of other States 

are in the habit of purchasing this Minnesota 
wheat and mixing it with the softer varieties pro- 
duced in their own localities. • 

GARDENING AND FRUIT GROWING. 

The soil of Minnesota is peculiarly adapted to 
gardening. There are no clods to interfere with 
the working of the ground, and vegetables of all 
varieties grow with great rapidity, while retaining 
all their excellence, or being superior in quality 
to those of slower growth in more humid climates. 
The garden vegetables (cultivated here embrace 
nearly all the ordinary varieties of the north tem- 
perate zone, and they are usually large anddelici- 
ously flavored. 

Flower-gardening is also carried on quite exten- 
sively. The out-door flowers comprise the usual 
varieties of roses, pinks, peonies, poppies, lilies, 
dahlias, china astors, pansies, lady-slippers, sweet 
Williams, phlox, larkspur, morning glories, flower- 
ing peas, bleeding hearts, tulips, lilacs, snowballs, 
chrysanthemums and a host of others common to 
the gardens of Europe and the northern United 
Stales. There is always a fair demand for pot- 
plants and cut flowers, and nearly every village 
in the State of 500 inhabitants and upward has 
one or more greenhouses. 
A good deal of difficulty was experienced in introducing apples into the State, but now Afinnesota 
produces as fine apples as can be found anywhere, and the annual product reaches 200,000 bushels; a 
number of varieties of cultivated plums and cherries are successfully cultivated, and currants, goose- 
berries, raspberries, blackberries and most other varieties of small fruit do as well in Minnesota as any- 
where else. The fact is, most of these are found growing wild in nearly all parts of the State, and are 
equally large and well-flavored with the cultivated fruits. Grapes are found growing wild in all parts of 
the State, and several cultivated varieties have been successfully introduced. 

Bee-culture is a flourishing industry, having begun with the capture and domestication of the wild 
bees native to the State by the early settlers. The abundance of wild flowers and of culitvated bloom- 










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ing plants alilbrds the bees ample resources to draw from, and the long winters induce them to lay up 
greater stores of sweets. Moreover, the blooming plants of this country, being of quick growth, do not 
acquire those strong, pungent qualities of flowers of slower growth, and the flavor of honey made from 
them is of corresponding delicacy. 

STOCK-RAISING IN MINNESOTA. 

Stock-growing offers great inducements to the Minnesota farmer, and more are going into it every 
year, as there is no branch of agricultural industry for which the State is better adapted. It is a 
mistake to suppose that either the length or severity of the winters are objectionable in this respect. 
The greater degree of cold leads to the animals being clothed with thicker coatings of hair, Nature 
herself making this additional provision for their protection; and as intervals of chilling rains and sleet 
are of e.xtremely rare occurrence at any season, and wholly unknown during the winters, they have no 
to contend with this prolific cause of colds, catarrhs and pneumonia. The dry air is conducive to the 
preservation of their health, 
as to that of the human 
family, and they not only 
endure the severity of the 
season, but thrive during 
the coldest winters, if prop- 
erly fed and sheltered. That 
they require shelter at all 
has sometimes been urged 
as an objection, but it is 
coming to be understood 
that shelter is equally 
needed in other States, and 
that the losses of cattle and 
sheep through exposure to 
the inclemency of winter 
weather, even in Texas, 
amount in dollars and cents 
to many times the cost of all 
the necessary shelter these animals require in Minnesota. Minnesota cattle are free from pleuro- 
pneumonia and other epizootic diseases, and the rich grasses of the State make their meat firm and 
juicy, causing them to command higher prices than cattle from further south. An experienced cattle- 
raiser says that notwithstanding their higher value marketable cattle can be produced at less expense in 
Minnesota than further south. The wild grasses of the Minnesota prairies are not only abundant, but 
highly nutritious. Hay made from the blue-joint variety is of excellent quality, and that from the wild 
red-top fully equals tame grass hay; while the blue grass, which abounds in many locaUties, cannot be 
excelled for pastures. With plenty of such provender and uniform good health, cattle mature rapidly, 
and are fit for market at three years of age. Shorthorns and high-graded stock will weigh from i,6oo 
to 1, 800 pounds per head at that age, and, as they bring better prices than older cattle, there is oppor- 
tunity for realizing larger profits. To this must be added the advantage arising from the minimum 
percentage of losses by deaths from all causes. 

Sheep, hogs and horses also benefit by the pure air, bracing climate and abundant and good food 
which Minnesota affords. Convincing evidence that the stock-growers of Minnesota have faith in the 





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adaptability of the climate and grasses to their business is found in the fact that they have made and are 
continuing to make heavy outlays of money to obtain full-blooded and high-graded animals of the best 
breeds. A large number of the bulls, stallions and rams owned in the State are imported, and many of 
them are thoroughbred. There are also a good many imported cows, mares and ewes owned here. 
Most of these are high-priced animals, and their aggregate cost counts well up into the hundreds of 
thousands of dollars. 

THE D.-MRV INTEREST, WOOL GROWING, ETC. 



The dairy interest in Minnesota has rapidly grown to imposing proportions. The creameries make 
butter equal to the best product of Western New York, and cheese which has no superior. 

Wool and poultry form important sources of revenue to the Minnesota farmer. Besides the oppor- 
tunities already enumerated for deriving profit from his labor, he also has his garden. If he lives near 
enough to a large city to send fresh vegetables and berries to market by wagon or railway, he can find 
~. a.ij-i'^ ready sale for them; and the canning fac- 



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tories, which are being constantly estab- 
lished in different parts of the State, add 
largely to the chances of disposing of ihese 
products profitably. Tons -of vegetables 
are marketed every year already, and the 
demand is not nearly supplied. In addi- 
tion to these are the strawberries, rasi^ber- 
ries, currrants, blackberries, etc., which 
may be inexpensively cultivated, yield 
abundantly and sell readily. If he is in a 
timbered locality he may have the further 
resource of cranberries, blueberries, etc., 
that grow wild, and of ginseng and other 
medicinal roots and plants that are found 
in most of the wooded districts. 

INEXHAUSTIBLE MANUF.'iCTURING RESOURCES. 

Douiii.E Roadway, Park Boulev.ard. 

While the development of the agricultural 

resources of Minnesota have so far chiefly engrossed the attention of lier inhabitants, the 

conditions are now arising which will cause more attention to be ])aid to turning some of 

her vast manufacturing and mineral resources to account. Minnesota is destined to, in time, 

become one of the busiest hives of varied industry on the continent. Her unequaled natural 

water powers hav^e already been referred to. She not only possesses the motive power to operate 

machinery to work up material, but either does or can produce the material to be operated upon. Her 

forests supply abundance of pine, cedar, birch, oak, ash, maple, walnut, etc.; her quarries yield 

granites, syenites, quartzites, limestones, sandstones, slates, etc., which cannot be excelled for bridge and 

general building purposes, monuments, ornaments, etc. She has the clays for brick, pottery, delftware, 

and probably porcelain, and superior white sand for glass, stone yielding the best of lime and cement, 

and extensive beds of lime and kaolin. Her agricultural products afford cheap and excellent material 

for the manufacture of bread-stuffs, starch, malt, sugar, syrups, linen, cordage, paper, etc. Her flocks 

of sheep, herds of cattle and droves of swine can furnish ample supplies of wool and hides for making 

cloth, flannels, blankets, leather, etc., while the packing and curing of their flesh might also be made to 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 

afford employment to people within the limits of the State. The 
afford iron, copper, silver and other minerals. 



the northeastern counties 



THE DEVELI 



OF M.AXUFACTrRES. 



The earliest manufactories in the State were those of lumber, and this was the only manufactured 
product shipped hence until within the past twenty-five years. The industry was the natural conse- 
quence of the existence of pine forests and boundless water power. The ne.xt great manufacturing 
industry, in the order of its development, was flour manufacturing. Minnesota now has within her 
borders as many as 500 flouring mills, some of which are the largest in the world. Minneapolis, on 
account of the purchases of wheat to meet the requirements of her enormous mills, as long ago as 1884 
took rank as the leadmg piimirv w licit nirikct in the woild hei leceipts of that cereal exceeding 
those of Chicago by 2,000 000 
bushels. The flour production 11 
of the State in that year reache 
S, 000, 000 barrels. 

Besides saw-mils and grist 
mills there are in the State 
l)laning mills, door and sash fac 
tories, wagon, carriage md 
sleigh factories, cooper shops 
railroad car manufactories and 
repair shops, threshing and othei 
agricultural machine shops pa 
jjer mills, printing offices, litho 
graphic establishments, wood 
and metal engravers, map pub 
lishers, book publishers, fouml 
ries and finishing shops, engine 
and boiler factories, plow ant 
harrow factories, buttei tub 
factories, fruit-canning estab 
lishments, furniture factories, 
potteries, brick-yards, three cut- 




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ting and polishing establishments, a terra cotta lumber factory and a factory of terra cotta ornaments 
and house trimmings, a hydraulic cement factory, windmill, chair and moulding factories, fanning 
mill and school furniture factories, several fence factories, factories of iron architectural ornaments and 
galvanized iron cornices and window and door trimmings, boot and shoe factories, fire-brick and drain- 



tile factories, and all the usual minor factories that are found in other States of the Union. 



THE DEVELOPMENT OF MINERAL WEALTH. 

The development of the mining industry in the Lake Superior region of Minnesota, although still 
in its infancy, promises results which the wildest range of the imagination can hardly grasp. The rocks in 
every part of what is known as the Burnt District, east of Vermillion Lake, and extending across the 
northern parts of Lake and Cook Counties, are seamed with thread-like veins of copper and silver; and, 
extending from Vermillion Lake seventy-five miles eastward, with a width of from twenty to thirty miles, 
is what is called the "Iron Range," being a vast deposit of a superior quality of iron ore, of the hema- 



54 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

tite specular variety, assaying from sixty-five to seventy-two per cent, of metallic iron. This ore is 
everywhere easily accessible, its upper surface being frequently exposed and nowhere concealed beneath 
more than a shallow covering. There is probably no other iron deposit in the world that can be so inex- 
pensively mined, and none that is so convenient to facilities for cheap transportation. Railways, already 
partly built, have been projected, which will fully open up this district to the world. The iron mines of 
Minnesota are already beginning to compete with those of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The City 
of Duluth bids fair to, in time, become the seat of smelting works as extensive as any in the Union. 

Successful efforts have also been made at copper mining at several points along the north shore of 
Lake Superior; and near the north boundary line, from Pigeon Point to Loon Lake, fine specimens of 
silver ore have been obtained. Gold is found in the same vicinity, and some good specimens of plum- 
bago have been taken from Pigeon Point. An important mineral resource of Minnesota lies in the 
splendid quarries of slate, granite, sandstone and limestone that abound in the State. On the St. Louis 
River the slate quarries are large and of good quality- From the same region comes the, Fond du Lac 
stone — puiple sandstone — whith is lckn()^\led^nl to be ont of the most beautiful building stones ever 

iitili/ed Minnesota granite is already fa- 
mous for its beauty and excellence, and is 
found in inexhaustible quarries of various 
colors, composition, etc., at Sauk Rapids, 
liom Kasota is brought an orange tinted 
sandstone of great durability. At St. Paul 
lit, vaat <iuarries of limestone; clays suitable 
loi brick-making are found in several por- 
tions of the State. 

1 RANSPORTATION FACILITIES. 

1 he tarliest civilized travelers who put 
then o|)inioiis about Minnesota on record 
wtic deeply impressed with the importance 
of Its natural facilities for commerce. 
The Washburnk 11. ..mk, i uom •■.Satiki.av Sm.;. ,m ,,k." Although located in the very heart of the 

continent, they found it provided with two navigable water courses connecting it with the Atlantic 
seaboard at points widely distinct from each other. In the era preceding the introduction of railways, 
channels for transportation by water were almost essential to commercial intercourse, and they are still 
of moment, for the country that possesses them is able, through its opportunity to resort to competitive 
methods of transportation which they afford, to avoid submission to the oppressive policy sometimes 
practiced by railway companies toward communities wholly dependent upon them for facilities of commerce. 
The natural advantages of Minnesota are not confined, either, to these two great outlets for con- 
veying her products to the markets of the world, but the Red River and its navigable tributaries afford 
her communication with the vast, fertile region still farther distant in the Northwest, and which is now 
being rapidly peopled. In the not very distant future these will, no doubt, become useful as commercial 
highways and contribute materially to the prosperity of the State. Then there is the St. Croix and 
Minnesota Rivers, and the Mississippi above St. Anthony Falls, which are navigable for small steamers, 
and could, with slight improvement, be made to afford some four hundred miles of increased channels 
for commercial intercourse by water in the interior of the State. These rivers, too, are connected with 
navigable lakes that may readily be added to this system of interior communication and extend it still 
farther. 




CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 



A NETWORK OF RAILWAYS. 

Besides these natural thoroughfares, Minnesota is richly provided with railway facilities. Six great 
trunk lines connect her with Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, and all the grand railroad 
systems of the United States and Canada. She has direct communication now with the Pacific 
coast at San Francisco and, by means of the great Northern Pacific line, at Puget Sound; and with the 
Atlantic evV? the newly completed "Soo" route. In the more distant future the Manitoba and Canadian 
Pacific roads will connect her with the vast and fertile region the latter traverses, and open still 
another avenue to the Western ocean. Two other great railway corporations are operating lines across 
Dakota. These roads place it beyond question that Minnesota affords cheap and ample facilities not 
only for supplying the Eastern markets with her agricultural and manufactured products, but also the 
nearest and most direct routes of communication with the markets of both Europe and Asia. 

By their means she has become a general thoroughfare of commerce and travel. In winter what- 
ever transportation flows east" 
ward from Central British Amer- 
ica, or by way of the North- 
ern Pacific Railroad, including 
through freight and travel from 
China and Japan, is diverted 
from its direct course, because 
of the suspension of lake navi- 
agtion, and seeks the continu- 
ation of its journey overland by 
railroad lines running from St. 
Paul eastward. And in summer 
seasons much of the travel east- 
ward by the Union Pacific and 
its auxiliary lines bends north- 
ward through Minnesota to en- 
joy the luxury of lake voyages 
from Duluth. All this passing 
freight and travel augments the 
commercial importance of the 
State, and many thousands of 
tourists, attracted by the delightful climate, beautiful scenery and excellent opportunities for 
hunting and fishing, stop here every summer for recreation. Thus the peculiarities of the situation 
of the State not only tend to add to her commerce, but indirectly contribute to enhance the prices 
of her products generally in her home markets and increase the value of her real estate. The interior 
railway facilities of Minnesota are second to those of no other State in the Union. There is no 
locality in the State south of the Northern Pacific Railroad that is twenty-five miles distant from a line 
of railway. 

Minnesota's prosperous population. 

Minnesota has within the memory of every adult man and woman now living been largely wrested 
from the grasp of savages and become the happy home of over a million and a ([uarter of civilized and 
intelligent people. The population represents all civilized nationalities, and all religious denominations, 
classes and vocations. Thev have come hither to build permanent homes for themselves and families, 




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5(1 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

and are, therefore, vitally interested in the welfare and reputation of the country of their adoption. 
They have enacted good laws to secure the peace and safety of society and i)romote general happiness 
and prosperity, and such laws are rigidly enforced in every part of the State. Each organized county 
has its local officers and courts, and offenders against good order rarely escape prompt arrest and 
punishment, even in the frontier settlements. It may, indeed, be jus:ly claimed for the people of 
Minnesota that they are peaceful and law-abiding and that the tone of moral sentiment is fully eciual to 
that of communities generally. 




is^ir-4i^E:i^F=c3i_^r 



An Exposition of Her Mercantile, Manufacturing and Jobbing 
Interests. 



MILLERS' AND MANUFACTURERS' MUTUAL INSURANCE CO., 300 Oneida Block 
— This company, which is a local one, was established in i88i- The officers are: E. R. Barber, Presi- 
dent; C. McC. Reeve, "Vice-President; O. C. Merriman, Treasurer; C. B. Shove, Secretary; F. S. 
Danforth, Assistant Secretary; J. D. Sheahan; Gen'l Agent. There is an Executive Committee and a 
very influential Board of Directors. The special features of this Fire Insurance Company are, that it 
is a mutual company, that it is the oldest mutual institution in the Northwest. It ivas organized to 
afford the same advantages that stock companies offer and at a minimum rate. The semi-annual state- 
ment of the secretary shows that the company is in a most exceptionally flourishing condition. 

MINNESOTA FIRE ASSOCIATION, 300 Oneida Block— This association was organized in 
1865, as the Minnesota Fanners' Mutual Fire Insurance Association. About the year 1887 it was 
re-organized and put up $100,000 guarantee capital, under the State law. It is now enabled to do any 
and all kinds of work. The following are the officers: E. R. Barber, President; O. C. Merriman, 
Vice-President; C. B. Shove, Secretary; F. S. Danforth, Assistant Secretary, and C. K. Sidle, Treasurer. 
There is a Farm Department and a specialty is made of farm work and detached dwellings, also a 
Mercantile Department, which makes a specialty of sprinkled risks. The association has paid since its 
organization the sum of $265,000 on account of losses. The question of the.'adyisability of insuring 
against fire is one to which there can be but one answer, and it only behooves those who avail themselves 
of the indemnity to spe.that the corporation upon which they rely is one that can bear the risk. An 
inquiry of this nature into the stability of the Minnesota Fire Association would surely lead to a 
satisfactory result. 

THE WEST HOTEL, Hennepin Avenue and Fifth Street — One of the most important features 
of a city, at least to the traveling public, is its hotel accommodation. America is one of the most 
fortunate countries in the world in this respect; and if there is one city in which the hotel accommoda- 
tion is better than another — all other things considered — it is Minneapolis. The West Hotel is known 
throughout the civilized world, and is admitted on all hands to have few, if any, equals, and certainly no 
superior. It was built by Col. John T. West, who had for some time been proprietor of the Nicollet 
House, where he was eminently successful. The cost of the West was $1,500,000, and it is one of the 
most thoroughly well-built structures in the United States. Everything relating to its erection and dec- 



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RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 



oration was done on a grand and most liberal scale. Wherever a question arose as to whether an addi- 
tional outlay should be incurred in order to make the hotel more complete, it was always decided on the 
side of liberality. The consequence of this is that Minneapolis can boast of the possession of a hotel 
which is one of the most beautiful, and at the same time one of the best appointed hotels for comfort, 
that has ever been built. The architecture is original, being a happy combination of the Queen Anne 
and Colonial styles. It is built of red ]iressed brick and marble, with terra cotta trimmings. The 




ground plan is 196.XI 74 feet, and the total height 200 feet. There are eight stories. The rotunda or 
lobby is 7o.\9o feet. Leading from the floor is the grand stairway, which is wholly built of white marble. 
There are on the same floor as the rotunda the reading, reception, news, telegraph, billiard, coat and wash 
rooms, which are all designed for the accommodation of 1,000 guests. The second floor is divided into 
the grand dining room, three private dining rooms, ladies' ordinary, kitchen, serving room, guests' par- 
lors, gentlemen's club room, and suites of private parlors for wedding parties and distinguished guests. 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 6T 

All the flooring is of marble, except in the parlors and private suites, carpets of the richest kind being 
used there. The walls are wainscotted with marble and mahogany, with the ceilings of carved mahog- 
any in panels. The grand dining room is the finest, beyond all possible question, in America. The 
floor is of mottled marble, with the finishing in mahogany, in Moorish style. Every bedroom in the 
house, of which there are 407, is large and well lighted, thoroughly ventilated, and supplied with an 
abundant flow of hot and cold water, pumped pure from an artesian well 700 feet deep. There are no 
dark rooms. The furniture of the house throughout is most rich and elegant, having been made ex- 
pressly for the West, as were also the carpets, table linen, silverware, etc. The billiard room is 50x80 feet, 
and contains sixteen handsomely carved mahogany billiard and pool tables, especially designed for this 
hotel. One of the most important features of the hotel is the fact that it is absolutely fire proof. To point 
out half the advantages and beauties possessed by the West Hotel would require the space of a large vol- 
ume, and only a few of them can be sketched here; but this short account would be altogether lacking in a 
prominent feature if it did not refer to the management of the house. This was entrusted, while the 
building was yet incomplete, to the care of Mr. Charles W. Shepherd. This gentleman had been con- 
nected with some of the principal hotels in New York, Coney Island, St. Louis and Washington. The 
great success of his management has amply proved the wisdom of the selection, and he still continues to 
fill his responsible position with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of the swarms of visitors 
to the house. 

HAXTUN STEAM HEATER CO., 215 Second .\venue South— Haxtun Steam Heater Co. are 
manufacturers of steam heating apparatus and supplies, iron pipe, steam fittings, brass goods, boilers, 
radiators, etc., and contractors for steam and hot water heating and ventilating. The company 
succeeded the Anderson Steam Heater Co. in 1872. W. E. .Haxtun is President, J. H. Pierce, 
Secretary; E. E. Baker. Treasurer ; £^. S. Wentworth, Manager of the Northwestern business. They 
have a working capital of $500,000, and the annual sales amount to over $1,000,000. The manufactory is 
at Kewaunee, III, with branch houses at Minneapolis and Duluth, Minn., and St. Joseph, Mo. They 
have furnished heating apparatus for thirty or more large business blocks, including Temple Court, 
Lumber Exchange, Syndicate Block, Loan and Trust Building, Edison Electric Light and Power Build- 
ing, Kasota Block, etc. The heating and ventilating apparatus of twenty-six school buildings and that 
of very many residences within the city has been put up by them, and among others at St. Paul the 
.\lbion Flats, Moore Building, W. J. Dyer & Bro. Building, and throughout the State many more, 
including the Hotel Brunswick at Faribaidt, Shattuck Schools and State Normal School at Moorhead. 

FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' SA VINGS BANK, of Minneapolis, Temple Court, corner 
Hennepin and Washington Avenues — In presenting a sketch of this bank to the thousands of readers 
of this work the following article from the Minneapolis Annual of the Pioneer-Press, published Dec. 
25th, 188S, answers every purpose so well that we reproduce it complete and invite special attention to 
its contents: "There is not in the City of Minneapolis, nor anywhere else in the entire Northwest, an 
institution of more sterling merit than the Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Bank, doing business in the 
Temple Court Block, corner Washington and Hennipen Avenues. It is the only real savings bank in the 
city, and transacts no commercial business whatever. In adopting this course it is enabled to offer its cus- 
tomers the most perfect guarantee against loss, thus affording the most absolute security to its depositors. 
Its history the past fifteen years has been one of continual advancement, and its sphere of usefulness is 
ever extending, as is shown most conclusively by the fact that its deposits now exceed $3,000,000. The 
year 1888 has been the most successful and remarkable in its career, 5,000 names having been added to 
its list of depositors, which now number 37,000, and $25,000 added to its surplus, after paying a five per 
cent, dividend to its patrons, while its deposits show an increase of $700,000. The officers of the bank 



C8 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

are Clinton j\[onison. President ; Thomas Lovvry, Vice-President, and E. H. Moulton, Treasurer ; and 
these, with Messrs. John De Laittre, J. W. Johnson, William Chandler, M. B. Koon, R. B. Langdon, 
John S. Pillsbury and J. C. Oswald, compose the directorate. To any one at all familiar with Minne- 
apolis and her material and wonderful progress, these names furnish a guarantee of the most substantial 
character, as they comprise some of the most successful, best known and most trustworthy of her busi- 
ness, professional and public men. The management of the bank has always been characterized 
by the most conservative and business-like methods, and so thoroughly perfect have the precautions 
taken to guard the interests of its patrons proven that not one cent has ever been lost since its doors 
were first opened to the uses of the public. More than this need not be said to convince anyone 
desirous of availing himself of a safe, sure and profitable means of protecting and accumulating his 
savings that this bank offers most encouraging inducements to that end; and we are only too glad to 
say to such persons that we most heartily commend the institution to their fullest confidence and con- 
sideration." Mr. Moulton, the treasurer of the bank, to whose efforts are chiefly due its jnost remark- 
able success, is also City Treasurer of Minneapolis, and one of her most public-spirited and influential 
citizens. 

NORTH STAR BOOT AND SHOE. CO., Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots and Shoes, 
i8, 20 and 22 Third Street North — The North Star Boot and Shoe Company first began operations in the 
month of July, 1873. '^^^ capital stock of the company is $200,000.00. The present board of the 
company's officers consists of the following gentlemen : President, C. B. Heft'elfinger; Vice-President, 
Wm. S. King; Secretary, John A. Lucy; Treasurer, Preston King. The company's building is an 
imposing structure, six stories high and about 57x157 feet square. In this they have their factory, 
store rooms and offices. They occupy the entire building. In their manufacturing department one 
hundred and twenty-five men and women are employed and kept busy during every working day of the 
year. This fact of itself goes far to show the magnitude, enterprise and commercial stability of the 
house. Twelve salesmen are constantly kept on the road, representing the interests of the company in 
country towns and smaller cities, and taking the orders which are always so promptly and satisfactorily 
filled by their house. If anything, the company seems to have throve upon Eastern competition, and 
have always invited instead of striving to dodge it in any particular. From a trade which at first was 
forced to rely for support and life upon the country immediately adjacent to Minneapoli<, they have 
reached out into the trade marts of Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Colorado, North and South 
Dakota, Montana, Oregon and Washington Territory (or State). They have spared neither time nor 
money to place on the market a class of goods the merits of which will bear the closest comparison with 
any or all Eastern or foreign manufacturers. This is distinctively a Minneapolis institution, a fact in 
which the proprietors take the same pardonable pride the city at large has always felt in it. The 
members of the company are all old residents of Minneapolis, some of them being prominently identified 
with other valuable business interests in the city. Major C. B. Heft'elfinger is the only member of the 
firm who claims a war record, he having served in the First Minnesota Regiment, which rendered such 
\ aliant service in the country's hour of need. Wm. S. King, too, by his open-handed philanthropy, 
political and financial prominence and unbounded faith in the glorious future of the State of Minnesota 
and its metropolis, Minneapolis, has acquired a popularity and circle of acquaintanceslii]) not confined 
to the State. 

EUSTIS BROTHERS, Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry, 328 Nicollet Avenue— This is one of 
the pioneer jewelry stores of the city, it having been established so long ago as 1872 by the present pro- 
prietors. The business was at that time very small, and has gradually grown up with the city until it has 
attained its present large proportions. But not alone to the increased size of the city does the concern 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 69 

owe its success. It was principally the business talent of the two brothers, combined with push and 
energy and a thorough knowledge of the business, that brought the establishment to the jM-ominent 
position it now enjoys. The beautiful stock, much of which is displayed in most elegant show-cases, 
is valued at $70,000. It consists of the most varied selection of jewelry, solid silverware, diamonds, 
watches, clocks and some beautiful cut glass of the very choicest description. The store, with its fine 
mirrors at the back and beautiful display, is a sight worth seeing. The Brothers Eustis are New England 
men. They manufacture jewelry, so that parties wishing to have jewelry produced from their designs 
can get it executed by this firm. They have six experienced assistants. The amount of business done 
by the firm ranges from $75,000 to $100,000 per annum. 

jR. L. PRATT, Real Estate, 323 Hennepin Avenue — Mr. Pratt is one of the oldest residents of 
the city, having been here for thirty-nine years ^t the tmie of the war he was in Califoinia on busuieb-, 
which did not admit of his leavinLj. nnd he th it 1 n\ direct -participation in the stniing events 




Arch Bridge, Minneapoli 



incident thereto. This he fretted about a good deal at the time, but he has since come to the conclusion 
that his being prevented from joining in the important events then happening was not the worst evil 
that could have befaljen him. He conducts a general real estate business, but he is particularly inter- 
ested in Hazel Dell Addition, in the Third Ward, corner of Nineteenth and Upton Avenues: also in 
thirty-five acres adjoining Hazel Dell. He negotiates loans to some e.xtent, principally for Eastern 
capitalists. He also collects rents, rents buildings, and manages for non-residents. 

WOLVERTON 6- LEWIS, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 251 Nicollet Avenue, Room 2 
— This firm was established in 1883, but both the members of the firm had been in the real estate 
business for a number of years prior to that date. Mr. Wolverton has been in Minneapolis for tliirty 
years, and Mr. Lewis for eighteen years. The property handled by thein is principally their own. 
Among other valuable properties of theirs may be mentioned Wolverton's Addition, platted in 1882, 



70 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

Thirty-second and Thirty-fourth Streets, and Portland and Third Avenues South, a very fine tract of 
forty acres, with two lines of street cars, city water, and dwellings of from two to five thousand dollars, 
in Eighth Ward; Wolverton's Second Addition, Thirty-eighth Street and Third Avenue South; 
Wolverton & Lewis' Addition, Portland Avenue and Fortieth Street South, very desirable additions, in 
which there are cheap lots of from $600 to $1,500 each, very suitable for dwellings. They have lately put 
up seven dweUings on Wolverton & Lewis' Addition. They do a great deal of loaning, as they have, 
through their long experience in the business and their excellent business standing, good facilities for 
placing loans. They have the highest references — Northwestern National Bank, the Security Bank, 
Citizens' Bank, the Hon. A. R. McGill, and C. A. Pillsbiiry & Co., among others. 

C. F. JACKSON, Exclusively Black Dress Goods and Silks, Underwear, Gloves, Hosiery, White 
Goods, Trimmings and Notions, 525 Nicollet Avenue — A popular house with the ladies of the North- 
west is the dry goods house of C. F. Jackson. It is the only dry goods house in the Northwest that 
makes a specialty of black dress goods. Mr. Jackson is a native of Ohio. He was for fifteen years a 
member of the dry goods firm of Marsh & Jackson, of Norwalk, Ohio. Recognizing the opening for 
an exclusively dry goods specialty house in the Northwestern metropolis, he sold his interest in Nor- 
walk and came to this city in 1887. The growth of his business has been steady, and has exceeded his 
expectations. His store is divided into four general departments, viz.: Black dress goods, underwear, 
hosiery, white goods; gloves, and trimmings and notions. The main feature of his business is, how- 
ever, black dress goods and silks. Eventually he intends to handle no other line but this. His business 
now gives employment to eight clerks. He occupies two stores, and carries a stock of $25,000. He 
advertises extensively and is reaping a large mail-order business therefrom. 

JAMES H. BISHOP 6- CO., Paper Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers, 21, 23 and 25 
Third Street North — James H. Bishop & Co., paper manu''acturers and wholesale dealers, operate one 
•of the largest houses in the West in their line. The firm comprise the following named persons : James 
H. Bishop, M,inneapolis; C. M. Smith and T. F. Rice, Chicago. Capital stock of the firm, $50,000.00. 
The affairs of the firm are under the immediate supervision of Mr. Bishop, who gives his time and 
personal attention to the details of the business^ he being the President and Treasurer of the company. 
Their establishment is a thorough paper em|30rium, and is one of the principal sources from which is 
■drawn the supply for the ever-increasing demaiids'of the growing West for paper in its many useful and 
marketable forms. The area of their trade is not confined to the Northwest States and Territories, but 
has extended its limits back into the States of Illinois and Missouri, heretofore considered the sole 
market property of Eastern concerns. By their course in business they have done much to prove true 
the assertion that Minneapolis is the trade center of the great West. This house is represented on the 
road and to the outside trade by five traveling salesmen, who apjiarently find but little leisure in their 
occupation, if the amount of trade secured through that channel alone be a proper basis of an opinion. 
The force employed in the house, clerical and mechanical, consists of twenty-seven men and women, 
and a visit to the establishment will show there is plenty for each to do. James H. Bishop is a regular 
war veteran, having served as a member of the 4th New York Heavy Artillery, and also 140th New 
York Infantry. He saw all of the war, and all he ever wishes to. 

JOSHUA WILLIAMS, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in General Hardware, No. 102 Hennepin 
Avenue — The history of this house is so intimately associated with the story of the development and 
growth of Minneapolis, that a word as to its career could nowhere be more appropriately inserted than 
in a work of this character. It is the oldest hardware store in Minneapolis proper, being in existence 
since 1856, and the present proprietor has been associated with the business since 1861. The trade is 
both a wholesale and retail one, and the stock carried is a very complete and varied one, as it includes 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 71 

not alone everything in the general hardware line, but also bar iron and steel, nails and carriage and 
wagon woods, blacksmiths' stock and supplies, etc. Mr. Williams lived in Minneapolis since he was 
thirteen years of age, and has witnessed the city of his adoption grow from a small hamlet to her 
present vast and metropolitan proportions. He is conservative and careful in his business methods, a 
man highly esteemed and widely known as a citizen, and stands well up in financial and trade 
circles. 

rJI£ MENDENHALL GREENHOUSES, City Store 15 Fourth Street South— Mr. Men 
denhall, the proprietor of these greenhouses, was born in Guildford County, North Carolina, and came 
here in 1856, bringing a basket of flowers with him. In 1866 he commenced the business of a florist in- 
a small way and has gradually increased his 




The Menuenhall Gree> 

steadily on the increase. The way in which Mr. Mendenhall commenced his business is unique. He 
began the cultivation, of flowers simply as a matter of taste, and found so many eager applic.mts foi 
tliem that he was induced to make a charge for his surplus plants. This, however, did not by any 
means stop the demand and, without intending to foster a trade in that line, Mr. Mendenhall found 
Inmself at the head of a flourishing business. It is unnecessary to say that he must have been well quali- 
fied for the conduct of such a concern as he now possesses. He has now very extensive greenhouses, 
the aggregate surface of glass being no less than 45,000 square feet. His trade extends all over the 
Northwest, even as far as the State of Washington, and its volume amounts to many thousands of dollars 
annually. He cultivates all kinds of flowers and bedding plants. His greenhouses, twenty-one in 
number, are at the corner of Eighteenth Street and First Avenue South. 



72 RESOURCES OF AIINNESOTA. 

F. S. MARTIN, Steam and Hot Water Heating and Ventilating Apparatus, No. 304 First 
Avenue South — The business over which Mr. Martin presides was first started in 1883. Mr. Martin 
was born in New York State and has been here just si.K years. Since he began here he has greatly 
extended his business, which now reaches all over the Northwest. He employs a number of hands, 
varying from twenty-five to fifty. Mr. Martin thoroughly understands the business in which he is 
engaged, and no matter whether the apparatus be required for a residence or a public building, he is 
equally capable of seeing that every satisfaction is secured. Nearly all his work is done by contract. 
The volume of his business varies from $40,000 to $60,000 annually. The great advance that has been 
made in the methods of heating and ventilating has greatly increased the demand for apparatus such as 
Mr. Martin supplies. The following are a few of the more prominent buildings in which Mr. Martin 
has placed his work: The Tribune Building, the new Library Building on Hennepin Avenue, the First 
Baptist Church, the State Experimental Farm buildings, the Brunswick and National Hotels, the 
Medical College, the Scandia, Citizens and other banks. Also the residences of H. Aldeii Smith, S. T. 
McKnight, Dr. S. H. Chute and many others. Mr. Martin makes a specialty of hot water heating, in 
which line he has a wide-spread reputation. Those building or about to build will do well to consult 
Mr. Martin on his special system of hot water Jieating. 

W. B. BUNNELL, Architect, Bank of Commerce Building — Mr. Dunnell was educated for his 
profession at the Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass., and in Paris. For six years prior to his com- 
ing here he was a Superintendent of Construction on Government Buildings at Memphis, Tenn., and 
Kansas City, Mo. In the fall of 1882, he located in this city, and has practiced his profession here since 
that time. His general work is of a public character, and among the many buildings for which he is the 
architect are the following: Pillsbury College, the State Public School for Dependent Children, at 
Owatonna, in this State, the State Soldiers' Home, atMmnehaha, the Bloomington Avenue Presbyterian 
Church in this city, the third Minnesota Hospital for Insane, at Fergus Falls, and the new Reform School 
at Red Wing. He is a man of undoubted ability and has attained a high position among his professional 
brethren. The demand for buildings of a high order is on the increase in the Northwest, and the future 
career of a professional man like Mr. Dunnell, who has already made his mark, is pretty well assured. 

CITIZENS' FUEL CO., Van Dusen & Jacoby, Proprietors, Wood and Coal, Office No. 430 
Nicollet Avenue — Messrs. F. L. Van Dusen and F. G. Jacoby started' in Minneapolis in July, 1888, in the 
fuel and supply business, and have since that time steadily become favorably known by consumers in all 
parts of the city. Their yards are at Sixth Avenue S. E. and Main Street, at corner Twelfth Avenue 
South and Washington and at Seventh and Cedar. Their business has trebled, the outlook is good 
and their venture has in all respects been satisfactory. Coal, wood and coke are dealt in. Business 
for the winter aggregated $20,000 worth of wood and $30,000 of coal. Their principal office is centrally 
located and the future is promising. F. G. Jacoby bought in March all the interest of F. L. Van Dusen 
and is continuuig under same firm, with Mr. Geo. G. Jacoby as active manager. 

MINNESOTA TITLE INSURANCE d- TRUST CO., Oneida Block— This company was 
established in 1885. The officers of the company are Joseph U. Barnes, President; Putnam D. McMil- 
lan, 1st Vice-President ; Austin F. Kelly, 2d Vice-President; Daniel Fish, Counsel ; J. W. Mauck, Secre- 
tary and Treasurer; J. M. W. Pratt, Superintendent of Abstracts. The subscribed capital is $500,000, 
of which $350,000 is paid up. The guaranty fund deposited with the State Auditor is $200,000. The 
primary object of the Association is the insurance of real estate titles for the benefit of mortgagees and 
owners, and transfer of real estate. They have also a regular mortgage loan business, and they receive 
deposits, the same as a savings bank. They also have a trust department, and sell bonds, such as 
State bonds or school bonds. The officers are all men of the very highest standing. Mr. Barnes was 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 73 

formerly president of the Douglas County Bank of Alexandria: Mr. McMillan is a large real estate 
dealer here ; iMr. Kelly is one of the oldest mortgage loan men in the city ; Judge Fish is a well-known 
attorney; Mr. Pratt was abstracter and attorney in Milwaukee for a number of years, and Mr. Mauck 
has all the ins and outs of the title insurance business at his fingers' ends. The company has an 
abstract plant that has cost over $70,000 to accumulate. Every instrument filed in the Record Office 
is copied and the copy carefully lodged in the record department of this company. Experts are 
employed for this purpose — a person of two years' experience being allotted a certain grade of work, 
a person of three years' experience a grade higher, and so on, until the very highest grade of work is 
reached. The whole system is very complete, and is the result of many years' experience. It would 
be almost, if not quite, impossible without long experience to formulate a set of rules that would be 
equal to those in use in the offices of this company. About thirty people are employed by this 
institution. 

CEDAR LAKE ICE COMPANY, Office, 4 Washington Avenue' South— This is an old ice com- 
pany, having been formed about twelve or fifteen.years ago. The present officers are E. C. Babb, President 
(President of the Home Building and Loan Association), Emerson Cole, Vice-President (President 

People's Bank), and D. M. Chute, Secretary and 
Treasurer. It will thus be seen that the concern is 
an important one, but a glance at its business opera- 
tions will confirm and strengthen this impression. 
The store-houses are at Lake Calhoun, Blaisdell 
Avenue and Twenty-ninth and one-half Street, Du- 
font and Franklin Avenue, Lyndale Avenue, oppo- 
site Central Park, Twenty-second Street South and 
C, M. & St. P. R. R. and Nicollet Island. The 
quantity stored this year was about' 60,000 tons. 
The ice for family trade is all cut from Cedar Lake 
and Lake Calhou.n. A comparatively small quant- 
:e Company's Ice-House, j^^ ^j- ^.j^^^. j^^ j^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^j^^j is ^sg^ for cooling 

purijoses only. The annual trade amounts to about a quarter of a million dollars. Seventy-five hands 
and twenty-five wagons are employed by the company in their business. 

COLTON'S JAPANESE AND CHINESE CURIO STORE, 606 Nicollet Avenue— This is a 
wholesale and retail business. It was established by Mr. G. W. Colton in 1885. This house deals in Jap- 
anese and Chinese goods exclusively, importing some of these goods direct from Japan and China, others 
coming through a large importing house in New York. This connection gives them a better chance of get- 
ting these goods than any one else in the trade. There is something very attractive in this class of goods. 
The quaintness and absence of vulgarity in the designs render them acceptable to almost all classes of 
purchasers, and the vast assortment and varied character of the goods present an almost bewildering 
choice from which to make a selection. The stock is valued at from eight to ten thousand dollars, and 
is, without doubt, the best selected to be foimd this side of New York, and every novelty is to be found 
in it. Seven men are employed at this establishment, and there is ark extensive mail-order business done 
all over the Northwest. The annual sales are large for an entirely new business. 

THE LEONARD &' IZARD CO., Consulting and Contracting Electrical Engineers, Room 
908, Lumber Exchange — This enterprising and important company of consulting and contracting 
electrical engineers came to do business in Minneapolis, and to identify themselves with her interests 
to the extent of a branch establishment here, in October, 18S8. Their principal office is in "The 




74 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

Rookery," Chicago, and they also have a branch office at Milwaukee, in the New Insurance Building. 
The business of the firm is the erection or construction of electric railroads and the putting in of all 
classes of electric plants and apparatus, such as incandescent electric light plants, arc light plants, 
electrical power transmission plants, storage battery plants, electric light wiring, etc., also the erection 
of high economy steam plants and the installation of apparatus for the utilization of water power; in 
fact, the doing any engineering and construction work where a high degree of mechanical skill and 
proficiency in electrical science is requisite. The electric railroad at St. Joseph, Mo., was built by this 
firm ; also the electric street railway in Atlantic City, N. J., and many others. Mr. W. S. Andrews, who is 
a member of the company, has present charge of the management of its Northwestern business. A 
specialty is made of large electrical engineering jobs, such as incandescent and arc light central 
stations, large power transmission plants, etc. The firm also handle and deal in a full line of com- 
mercial electrical apparatus and supplies. 

M. LA HA 6- CO., 512 Nicollet Avenue, Carpets, Window Shades, Draperies, Lace Curtains — 
One of the largest carpet and drapery establishments in the city is that of M. Lara & Co., 512 Nicollet 
Avenue. The concern was formerly run under the firm name of Kenyon & I^ara, but has been 
for many years doing business under its present style. Since 1882 it has increased its volume of busi- 
ness about four-fold. Formerly the stock carried by the firm amounted to $12,000 or $15,000; it now 
reaches as high as $50,000 at least. Besides a very large retail business in the city, the firm do a con- 
siderable mail-order business. Their stock of draperies and carpets is very fine. Almost every descrip- 
tion of carpet may be found in their immense show rooms, the floor space of which exceeds 12,000 
square feet. They are now doing a business of about $100,000 annually, but do not intend to stop at 
those figures, every year making the showing more important. They have at the back of their premises, 
up-stairs, a fine work-room, where carpets and draperies are made to fill the or'ders of customers. A carpet 
cleaning works, .operated by steam and located at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Eleventh Street, is 
connected with the establishment. 

BRUNSWICK CIGAR STORE, Frank J. Jungen, Proprietor, Fine Imported and Domestic 
Cigars, corner Hennepin and Fourth — One of the handsomest stores to be found in the Northwest is 
the Brunswick Cigar Store, situated on the corner of Hennepin and Fourth Street, of which Mr. Frank 
J. Jungen is the proprietor. Mr. Jungen came from his native State, Wisconsin, in 1S81, and traveled 
for H. G. Harrison & Co., and their successors, Harrison, Farrington & Co., continuously from that 
time until January, ist, of this year, when he embarked into business for himself. As a salesman on the 
road Mr. Jungen was eminently successful, a fact demonstrated by the number of years he remained 
with one firm, and throughout his career a great specialty of cigars and tobacco was made, giving that 
branch a careful study and attention. It was therefore natural that his start in business should be in 
this line. The location of the store is one of best business points in the city, and with its immense 
double fronts of large plate glass on Hennepin Avenue and Fourth Street respectively, together with 
the magnificent interior finish, presents an imposing appearance. No pains or expense has been sjjared 
in fitting up the store, as Mr. Jungen is not the man to do things by halves, and, being a man of exquisite 
taste, has certainly succeeded in fitting up one of the best arranged and finest equipped stores in the 
Northwest. He carries a large* and well-assorted stock of the choicest imported Key West and 
domestic cigars, among which may be mentioned such as V. .Martinez, Ybor & Co.'s, Wachelbergs & 
Co.'s, Lozano, Peudas & Co.'s, Celestino, Palacio & Co.'s, Manuel Garcias', Pedro Murios', Villar de 
Villars', and numerous other celebrated manufacturers' lines, which space will not permit of mentioning. 
Besides these he has a large assortment of plug, fine-cut and smoking tobacco, cigarettes, snuffs, pipes 
and fancy smokers' articles — in fact, everything to be found in a first-class cigar and tobacco store. 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 75 

Mr. Jungen is a married man with a family, though only twenty-eight years of age, so that he has, proba- 
bly, a long career before him. He is precisely of the right make-up for a successful business man, with 
a large acquaintance throughout the city and ihe State, obtained while traveling. He has started in in the 
front ranks and if he does not succeed, not only in keeping that position, but in getting ahead of all com- 
petitors, it will not be through lack of push, ability and business integrity and tact, or for the well 
wishes of his thousands of friends. 

/. BRIGGS, Real Estate and Loans, Tribune lUiilding, Room 14 — Mr. Briggs commenced 
business here in 1881, in general real estate. He was born in Connecticut. He has city property for 
sale or exchange, lots in Brainerd, 200,000 acres of wheat lands, improved farms and pine lands. 










vKis— St. p., M. & M. R'y. 



The pine lands are principally in this State, and the wheat lands in Dakota. He has discovered that 
when the demand for city property is dull everybody wants to get a farm, and the demand for such 
jiroperty is active. His list includes such a great variety of properties that he can scarcely ever be at 
a loss to meet the wishes of any would-be purchaser. 

KAYSER 6- CO., Importers, Jobbers and Retailers of Wall Papers and Interior Decorations, 
612 Nicollect Avenue — This is a branch establishment of M. M. Kayser & Co., 406, 408 and 410 Arch 
Street, Philadelphia, in which city Mr. Kayser was born. He has been in Minneapolis sixteen years, 
and established the present business about three years ago. It is increasing at such a rapid rate that it 
is 66 per cent, larger this year than it was last, and the operations literally extend from one end of the 
continent to the other. As a specimen of one day's orders it may be stated that no less than twelve 
different States each contributed their quota — Kansas, Montana, Dakota, Iowa, Missouri and Illinois be- 



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RESOURCES OF AflNNESOTA. 



ing represented. Their place in Philadelphia has been established for the past eighteen years, and it is 
remarkable that people in the States contiguous will frequently send thqir orders to Minneapolis, while 
those near here will send to Philadelphia. It would seem that the first place that catches the eye in the 
advertisement is the one to which they send the order. The premises occupied by the concern here 
comprise a large and handsome store and a basement. The stock is large, but varies much on account 
of this being a distributing point for the Northwest. 

/. C. SEELEY (Sn CO., Real Estate and Loans, 9 and 10 Tribune Building — This business was 
established in 1872 by Mr. Seeley. Mr. VV. J. Bishopp, the other member of the firm, joined about 
four years ago. Mr. Seeley was born in Michigan and Mr. Bishopp in New York. They are now 
interested in and part owners of Kenwood, between Lake of the Isles and Cedar Lake. Some very fine 
improvements are being made in this property, which is one of the best additions to the city. The 
firm control property aggregating about half a million dollars in value. They negotiate loans for 
private Eastern capitalists. Their experience is such that in seventeen years they never lost a dollar 
for a mortgagee. On two occa- 
sions only has it been necessary 
to foreclose. At the time the 
two pieces of property brought 
$5,000 each. They are now 
each worth $50,000. At the 
time the business was first estab- 
lished, there were about 20,000 
people in the city. Mr. Seeley 
erected the second stone front 
block in the city. It is still 
known as the Domestic Block 
At the time it was erected it 
was thought to be an extrava- 
gant piece of architecture, but 
is now thrown in the shade by 
many other more ornate struct- 
ures. He has also erected about 
a hundred dwellings and business houses since he has been here. Mr. Seeley has been identified with 
the Y. M. C. A., and secured" the completion of their rooms over the city market in 1876. He is now 
chairman of the Building Committee, which has in charge the building now in course of erection for the 
association, which will be one of the most complete buildings for the purpose in the United States, as 
soon as the citizens respond in their own liberal manner to the requests of the committee. 

PARDRIDGE &> COMPANY, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Dry Goods, Carpets, Boots 
and Shoes, Nicollet Avenue and Eighth Street — The growing importance of Minneapolis has caused 
the establishment of many branches of Eastern houses. Among recent acquisitions may be mentioned 
the dry goods house of Pardridge & Co., whose main interests are in Chicago, where they maintain 
four houses. They also have branches in Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, Rockford, 111., and Kansas City. 
Their Minneapolis branch was established October 15, 1888. Here they occupy a building 80x125 feet 
and two stories high. Fifty clerks and two delivery wagons are employed. Mr. F. R. Pardridge is the 
manager of this branch. Their store is divided into twenty-eight departments, each presided over by 
competent clerks. Among their leading departments may be mentioned those devoted to dress goods. 




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CITT OF MINNEAPOLIS. 77 

millinery, flannels, fancy goods, hosiery, gloves, boots and shoes. They make a special feature of 
notions and fancy goods. They have a stock of $125,000, and every mch of space is utilized in their 
large store. It is a typical bazaar and its shelves are replete with goods to attract the feminine eye. 
The aggregate business done by the main house and branches exceeded in 1888 $13,000,000. With 
immense facilities, and handling such quantities of goods, they command the lowest prices, and can sell 
accordingly. 

nji. CHAS. S. TALBERT, Dentist, 326 Nicollet Avenue— Dr. Talbert is justly considered one 
of the leading men in his profession in this city. He studied dentistry in Indianapolis, Indiana, and 
practiced there for ten years prior to his coming here. This he did in 1882, and his practice has been 
steadily on the increase since that time until to-day he has one of the largest in the city. He performs 
all kinds of dental work, including bridge work and painless dentistry, the latter being another name 
for the administration to the patients of nitrous-oxide gas. Dr. Talbert has always kept himself well 
abreast with the times in all matters pertaining to his profession, and now; occupies a high position in it. 
In fact, his practice here has been eminently satisfactory. 

CITY MILLS, J. W. Shadewald, Proprietor, 514 Central Avenue — These mills are now so far 
advanced in the matter of making high grade corn meals, rye, graham, buckwheat and entire wheat 
flours, hominy, grits, etc., which constitute the specialties manufactured, that their products cannot be 
excelled by those of any other mills on earth, not even e.xcepting those of world-wide fame at Akron, 
Ohio. The quarters occupied are also deserving of special mention, being an ornamentally con- 
structed brick block, three stories high, with basement and engine room. The front of the building is 
of pressed brick, with cut brown stone and terra cotta trimmings and of elegant design. The block was 
built last year especially for this use, and the machinery put in is of the newest and best anywhere 
obtainable. The busijiess was established in 1880, and is the property of Mr. J. \V. Shadewald, who 
founded the enterprise. The special brands of corn meal made are, "Hiawatha," "Amber," "Oriental" 
and "Sun Flower;" of buckwheat flour, "Honey Comb," and of rye flour, "Best White Rye.." All these 
goods are fully warranted to be as good as any on the market no matter where produced. St. Louis 
winter wheat flour is also handhed in large quantities, as are also hay, corn, oats and feed. Mr. Shade- 
wald is quite a young man and came to this city from Wisconsin about ten years ago. He employs 
ten men in connection with his business, and is one of that class of industrious and thrifty citizens to 
whom Minneapolis is in a large measure indebted for much of her phenomenal growth and prosperity. 

A. L. MARTIN, Real Estate Dealer and Manufacturer of Brick, 10 South Fourth Street — Mr. 
Martin has been here since 1879. He was born at Pipersville, Wisconsin, in May, 1858. In 1882 he 
established his business as a real estate dealer. He now simply sells his own property, of which he has 
considerable in different parts. He is also an extensive manufacturer of common white brick. His 
yards are at Thirty-fifth Avenue North and Marshall ^Street, on the East Side, and at Coon Creek, about 
eight miles this side of Anoka. He employs between eighty and one hundred men in the two yards, 
and from five to twenty teams. He will turn out about six millions of brick this season. This sounds 
like a large number, but the great demand for building materials of all kinds will probably secure their 
sale as quickly as they are fit for removal. 

GETZ, SUMMERL &> CO., 305 Second Avenue South, Commission Merchants in Grain, Pro- 
visions, Stocks, Oils, Etc. — This firm was established in 1884, and first carried on business at 254 First 
Avenue South. They have now removed to a splendid office on Second Avenue South, which is fitted 
up with every convenience for the conduct of their large and increasing business. Their blackboard, 
loaded with figures, covers almost an entire side, and is the best that could be devised for the pur|)ose. 
They have connections with the Western Union Telegraph, and have their own private wire; 



78 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

also, direct private wires between this city and Chicago and New York. They have their own opera- 
tors. Sometimes they have as many as one hundred messages in a day between this city and Chicago 
and New York. Besides, they have grain and stock tickers. They make a specialty of attending to 
country orders. At the end of their extensive ofifice are private rooms, lavatory, toilet, etc., and the 
building is well ventilated and fitted with steam heating apparatus. The members of the firm are Mr 
H. S. Getz, who came to this country from Germany many years ago; Mr. E. Summerl and Mr. C. F. 
Getz, both of whom are American born. They are three enterprising, wide-awake business men, who 
are bound to bring their enterprise to a successful issue. 

F,. P. CROOKER G^ CO., Real Estate and Loans, 200 Temple Court — Mr. E. P. 
Crooker and .Mr. J. F. Travis, the members of this firm, have both been in business in the city for a 
long time separately. This year they became associated under the firm name i,'iven above. They are 
doing a large trade in city and su. 
burban property. They do quite a 
commission business, but make 
specialty of handling their o\m 
property. At present they have 
the control of several important 
additions : one at Lake Harriet, one 
at Minnehaha, one at Lake Crystal. 
and one at Lake Calhoun. Thc\ 
were both born in this State, and 
are consequently well known. They 
pay particular attention to the prop- 
erty of non-residents, both as to sell- 
ing and renting.. This forms a con- 
siderable part of their business. 
Another feature of their trade is the 
exchange of properties. Thus a 
farmer, for instance, wishes to ex 
change his farm for city or suburban 
property. By placing the matter 
in the hands of this firm it is ten 
chances to one he could be suited 
right away. Or it might be the other 
way — a city man wanting to exchange for a farm. Another department of their business is loaning 
money on real estate, and in this department also they have done a considerable amount. Both mem- 
bers of the firm are young business men of known ability, and have no doubt a bright future before them. 

H. S. SMITH & CO , General Commission Merchants, 12 Bridge Square — The commission 
house of H. S. Smith & Co., general commission merchants of No. 12 Bridge Square, is doing a healthy 
trade. The concern was established about two years ago, but as an indication of the push and energy 
of the two members of the firm it may be noted that the volume of trade (which was large in the first 
year for a new concern) was more than doubled in the second year. In fact, it would be hard to find 
a more complete team of business men than Mr. H. S. Smith and his partner, Mr. McLean. Mr. Smith 
comes from Michigan, and has been connected with general merchandise all his life. He looks after the 
internal business of the office and the finances. Mr. McLean came from Wisconsin, having been in 




CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 79 

the business for many years previously, and he gives his attention principally to the outside business. 
He is an expert iu the butter trade, and it may be said that in that branch of the business he has no 
equal. Their trade is mostly in the city, and they receive their farm produce from different parts of this 
State and from Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Their apples come from New York, Michigan and 
Missouri. Their oranges, bananas, etc., are shipped direct, in car lots, from Florida and Cali- 
fornia. They employ about ten hands, and their trade is ever on the increase. One of the great secrets 
of their success is the personal supervision which their business receives in all its details. They will 
shortly move to more commodious premises on First Avenue North. 

MOORE BROS., Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, ii South Fourth Street — This business was 
established three years ago as Spear & Moore. Mr. Spear retired about two years ago, and Mr. J. F. 
Moore, who is an attorney, was admitted as a partner. Both these gentlemen were born in Ohio, and are 
both graduates of Dartmouth College. Mr. H. L. Moore has been in Minneapolis for over seven years 
and was formerly Assistant Superintendent of Schools here. The firm.do a general real estate busi_ 
ness, handling both their own property and property on commission. They have a very extensive list, 
and deal, to a great extent, in inside city property. They also conduct a large loaning business, mainly 
for Eastern capitalists. They do quite a large business in renting and collecting rents, taking charge of 
property and caring for it. In addition to the real estate business, they are agents for the New 
Hampshire Fire Insurance Company and the Northern Assurance Company, of London, and Aberdeen, 
England. They give some very, excellent references, among others Judge E. S. Jones, President Hen- 
nepin Co. Savings Bank, First National Bank, Hon. George A. Pillsbury, E. A. Merrill, President 
Minnesota Loan & Trust Co., and Merchants' Bank, Lake City, Minn., and S. C. Bartlett, President 
Dartmouth College. 

CHAS. L. JJ.COBY. Portrait and Landscape Photographer, 250 and 252 Nicollet .\venue — 
Ever since iS65 the name Jacoby has meant for the people of Minneapolis what it does to-day, name- 
ly, in designating one of the leading art photographers of the Flour City. The gallery. is located on 
the principal retail thoroughfare, Nicollet Avepue, at Nos. 250 and 252, second floor, and commands 
every advantage requisite to Ihe execution of the highest standard of artistic work. The range of sub- 
jects comprises everything in the line of reproductive art, such as photographs, bromides, India ink, pas- 
tel, crayon and water-color work and portraits in oil. The force of artists employed is the largest of any 
in the city, being from ten to twenty, and a vast amount of commercial work is performed. Mr. Chas. 
L. Jacoby, the present owner of the gallery, is a son of W. H. Jacoby, the first proprietor. He has had 
entire control of the business the past two years and was, prior to that time, a member of the firm of 
W. H. Jacoby & Son, whom he succeeds. 

NATIONAL HOTEL, 205 Washington Avenue South, C. A. Merrill, Proprietor— The National 
Hotel, 205 Washington Avenue, is now one of the most complete of the smaller hotels of the city. 
The old National Hotel was built a great many years ago and will be remembered by most of those 
who have visited Minneapolis in earlier days. It was succeeded by the present building, which was 
erected by Mr. Ames, Avho opened it about three years ago. A little more than two years from its 
being opened, the fire occurred in the big Boston Building, and a good deal of damage was done to the 
National. After this, Mr. C. A. Merrill, the present proprietor, re-opened the building. A great deal 
of re-fitting and re-furnishing was required, and to this Mr. Merrill gave a liberal and tasteful attention. 
The building is a handsome five-story structure of Ohio sandstone, and is furnished with a passenger 
elevator and hot and cold water bath rooms. Mr. Merrill is one of the most pleasant gentlemen to be 
found in any hotel in the State. He is a veteran hotel man, as he opened the Cook House, of 
Rochester, in this State, so long ago as 1874, and at the present time is the proprietor of the Duncombe 



80 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

House, Fort Dodge, Indiana. He is ably assisted by Mr. W. N. I\[errill, who acts as clerk. The 
office and dining rooms of the National are peculiarly neat and attractive, and the charges are such as 
to make it agreeable to all who want a select and quiet stoijping place. 

S. E. OLSON 6- CO., Cash Jobbers of Dry Goods, Notions, Gents' Furnishing and Duck 
Goods, 213 and 215 Nicollet Avenue — One of the most striking business successes of the Northwest 

is that furnished by the enterprising dry goods 
house of S. E. Olson & Co. At the date of 
its establishment, in 1882, the firm occupied 
but a small portion of the first floor at their 
present location. They began business with 
but three clerks. Now they give employment 
to two hundred clerks, require seven delivery 
wagons, and occupy the entire-four stories and 
basement of the building at 211, and 215 
Nicollet Avenue. They have several travel- 
ing men constantly on the road, which is 
an evidence of their extensive business out- 
side of the city. The location of their build- 
ing is very prominent, being located at the 
junction of Hennepin and Nicollet Avenues, 
the two main thoroughfares of the city. The 
space of this house would, if extended over 
one floor, cover 33,000 square feet. The five 
floors are divided into twenty-seven depart- 
ments. In the basement bazaar is found cut- 
lery, crockery, glassware, wooden ware, toys, 
etc. On the first floor, some of the most 
important departments are silks, dress goods, 
hosiery, gloves and laces. On the second 
floor are found the departments for cloaks, 
millinery and fancy work material. On the 
ihird floor are departiTients devoted to car- 
l)ets, curtains and blankets. On the fourth 
floor is the wholesale department. They have 
a veiy large mail-order business, which is 
attended to by a department especially adapted 
to that feature. They are also sole selling 
agents for the celebrated McCaul paper pat- 
terns. They maintain an Eastern oflSce at 56 
South Street, New York City, where two regu- 
lar buyers are constantly employed. The 
business of this house will exceed one million dollars this year. The house is less than two 
blocks from the Union depot, and is within a short distance of all the hotels. Mr. Olson is the 
sole proprietor of the business, the " Co. " being nominal. Mr. Olson is one of Minneapolis' 
most live business men, and an enthusiastic believer in her future growth. He is a native of 




CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 81 

Norway. In addition to the supervision of his business, he is President of the State Bank of 
Minneapolis, one of the Directors of the Exposition, and a member of Governor Merriam's staff. 

LAUDERDALE 6- CO., Real Estate and Loans, Room 355 Temple Court— Lauderdale & Qo. 
W. H. Lauderdale, J. W. and F. W. Lauderdale. This firm was organized in 1879 by Mr. W. H. 
Lauderdale, resident of Minneapolis since 1854, and his son, F. W., and nephew, J. W., resident since 
'81. They have since been closely identified with the growth and prosperity of Minneapolis, especially 
of that part called North Minneapolis. They have at various times handled almost every piece of 
property in this section of the city. In 1886, when the limits of the city were extended to the north, 
Lauderdale & Co. sold many acre pieces which are now platted and improved. When the business 
portion of the city was first developing this enterprising firm were instrumental in bringing a number 
of investments to the city from abroad, thus helping to build up the many beatltiful business blocks. 
A few years ago the entire quarter block cornering with Temple Court, and in same block, was sold 
by them for $33,000. Quite a number of subdivisions have been platted and put on the market by 
them, as Lauderdale & Vander Horck's subdivision, Lauderdales' subdivision of Babbet's subdivision, 
and several small subdivisions. They still have twenty acres unplatted in the city and fifty acres on 
the East Side. As Minneapolis increases these acres will be judiciously put upon the market and sold 
for homes and business buildings. It is to such old and reliable firms as this that Minneapolis owes in 
part its fabulous growth. 

DURNAM i^ BARNS, Livery Stable, 1405 Washington Avenue North — This firm is composed 
of Geo. A. Durnam and I. C. Barns. Mr. Durnam started this stable in 1884, occupying for a year a 
location directly opposite his present stable. The stable they now occupy was built expressly for Mr. 
Durnam. The stable occupies an area of 54x150 feet, and is one story high. The main business of 
this stable is buying and selling horses, although they do considerable livery business. The sale 
business includes the handling of all kinds of horses. They sell about two hundred horses per year. 
In the livery department is found a good stock of driving horses, two hacks, six single rigs and one 
fWo-seated carriage. Fifteen horses are boarded. Five men are given employment. Both gentlemen 
are progressive citizens. Mr. Durnam takes quite an interest in politics and enjoys the distinction of 
having been elected as a Republican to the position of alderman from the Third, a Democratic ward. 
Mr. Durnam has lived here all his life. Mr. Barns is a New Yorker by birth and came here from 
Dakota. 

EAGLE FOUNDRLES, George M. Bryant, Proprietor, Office, Fifth Avenue South, near 
Second Street— Mr. George M. Bryant, the proprietor of these foundries, is a manufacturer of all kinds 
of castings, columns, pulleys, machinery, sled shoes, mauls, hitching and sash weights, and everything 
in his line from one ounce to ten tons. Mr. Bryant was born in England, and commenced business in 
this city eleven years ago. He commenced without capital, and by his persevering industry worked his 
business up to quite large proportions. It extends over the whole Northwest. He now employs from 
forty to sixty hands, and'his business is steadily on the increase. Only those who have had the same 
experience can tell what courage and perseverance are required in order to build up a large business, 
such as Mr. Bryant now controls, from small beginnings; and the amount of credit due to him is in 
exact proportion to the difficulties which he has had to overcome. 

PEASLEE d^ COMPANY, Cigars, 12 South Fourth Street— One of the most prominent cigar 
firms in the city is that of Peaslee & Company. The concern was really established so far back as 1866. 
The members of the firm are Mr. E. C. Peaslee, who was born in Dubuque, Iowa, and has been 
identified with that city for many years, and Mr. P. S. Preston, who was born in New York State, but 



82 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

was also associated with Mr. Peaslee in Dubuque for a number of years. They carry on a very 
extensive brewing business there, and their ales and porters are widely known and justly appreciated. 
Mr. Preston came here to conduct an agency for the products of the brewery, and also to open up the 
cigar business which is now carried on at No. 12 South Fourth Street. They handle domestic and 
imported cigars e.xclusively, and carry a stock of about $5,000 value. Their business is extending far 
and near, and has already reached a volume of from forty to fifty thousand dollars annually. They are, 
of course, more generally known on account of their ales and porters, but the business of cigars works 
in with the other branch of their trade in a very convenient manner. 

M. ROELLER, Manufacturer and Dealer in Fine Carriages, Buggies and Road Wagons, 246, 248 
and 252 Second Avenue South — Mr. Roeller established his business so far back as 1873, and has the 
satisfaction of knowing that his are the oldest surviving carriage works in the city. He came here 
from New Haven, Connecticut. ' He has extensive premises fronting on Second Avenue South, con- 
sisting of offices, warehouses and factory. His business, which is principally city trade, is now quite 
extensive, but is still steadily increasing. His sales amount to something over $75,000 per annum. He 
carries a large and valuable stock (usually about $30,000) and has some remarkably handsome carriages 
on sale. Mr. Roeller employs, on an average, twenty hands, and makes all kinds of carriages. He 
also does an extensive repairing business. His undertaking has been a success from the commence- 
ment, and he has so conducted his business that he now has a host of friends. 

_/. E. EGAN, Civil Engineer and Surveyor, 255 Hennepin Avenue and loi Central Avenue — 
Mr. Egan was born in Wisconsin, and came to Minneapolis in t88o. He had previously practiced for 
about two years in Wisconsin, and was therefore considerably experienced when he came here. He 
worked for Baker & Gilmore, on the East Side, for three years, and then came over to the West Side 
and commenced business for himself. Last year he bought out the office on the East Side, and now has 
two establishments. This is a bona fide case of success through perseverance and talent, as Mr. Egan 
owes his success entirely to his own exertions. In 1887 his office platted no less than 2,000 acres of 
land in the suburbs, which is a pretty good showing for one office to make. The East Side office is one 
of the oldest in the city, and is a very valuable addition to Mr. Egan's other business. Mr. Egan does 
about two-thirds of all the lithographing done in the city for real estate maps. Mr. Egan has some 
very influential references. Among them are Mr. H. G. Sidle, Marsh & Bartlett, P. D. McMillan, A. 
Y. Davidson, ],. F. Menage, Willis Baker, Anderson & Douglas, and a host of others. 

J. B. TAB OUR 6- CO., Real Estate and Loans, 325 Hennepin Avenue — This firm was 
established in 1882, Mr. Tabour being an old resident of the city, having lived here for thirty-three 
years. They are therefore perfectly posted in all Minneapolis real estate matters and superior judges 
of both present and future values. The reputation of Tabour & Co. is first-class, no real estate firm 
standing higher as good, square business men. They have platted Tabour's First, Second and Third 
Additions to Minneapolis, and deal largely in Eighth Ward and Lowry Hill property. They are agents 
for the well-known addition of Bryn Mahr. Bryn Mahr starts with a prospect of being one of the finest 
parts of the city. Already a number of fine residences have been erected, and more are going up. 
Over $100,000 have been put into improvements on the ground besides the original cost of the land. 
Fine, wide streets, shade trees, artesian wells for water supply, bridges — nothing is lacking to make the 
place desirable as a residence. Houses built there must be a certain distance back from the street, and 
must be of some pretentions to taste and elegance. Forty to fifty thousand dollars will be put into 
improvements this year. The whole region will get its water supply from artesian wells which the Bryn 
Mahr Company have sunk on the addition — it is the only region in Minneapolis supplied with perfectly 
pure, safe water. One well flows 1,000,000 gallons of pure, cold water per day, throwing it five feet 



CITV OF MINNEAPOLIS. 83 

above the surface. Bryn Mahr is close to the business part of the city, and convenient for business 
men. It is near the lakes and country, and healthy for their families. It can be reached by railway, by 
Hawthorne Avenue street railway and by carriage drives, a bridge over the railway tracks doing away 
with the necessity of driving across said tracks. Tabour & Co. control capital to any amount, and do 
a large loan business on a conservative and safe basis. 

Jf' D. VAN NORMAN, Railroad Contractor — Mr. Van Norman was born in Buffalo, New 
York. He came here from Illinois. He was in the practice of law until the war broke out. After 
serving as a commissioned officer he began, at the close of the war, to go into the contracting business, 
and has continued in it since. His takmg to this busmess was what may be called an accident. Mr. 

Vandaha Road, wanted him to furnish 
this was done he wanted him to take a 



bridges for him. Mr. Van Norman 
and a half, and during that time 
contractor and bridge builder, and 
He has been all over the country 
West. He has been in Minneapolis 

-,- ■ -:-,&_^~ S, 



R. B. Lewis, the chief engineer on the 
the road with some cross ties. At 
contract for putting up some 
was with Mr. Lewis for two years 
saw that he could succeed as a 
accordingly adopted the business, 
and the greater part of Canada 
about nine years. His specialty is 
heavy work, particularly bridge 
building, both iron combination 
and wooden structures. He con- 
structed bridges in Galveston, Har- 
risburg and San Antonio, Texas, 
where Jie was engaged for a year 
and a half He was engaged for 
two years and a half on the Bur- 
lington & Quincy and four years 
on the Northern Pacific, and put 
in all their wooden structures in 
Minnesota and Dakota. About 
the last work done by him was 
on the Winona Southwestern, with 
which he has a contract of about 
one hundred thousand dollars. He 
has been for two years and a half 
latterly doing some work for the 
Chicago & Northwestern and the 
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, under Langdon & Co. He has proved himself throughout to be a 
clear-headed business man, besides being a bridge builder of the highest ability. He has some 
beautiful photographs of some of the wooden structures put in by himself 

MINNEAPOLIS ASPHALT PA VEMENT CO., 309 National Bank of Commerce Building 
— The officers of this company are Mr. A. S. Sampson, President, and Mr. C. M. Carpenter, Secretary 
and Treasurer. They manufacture a pavement for driveways, sidewalks, alleys, crossings, washways, 
floors for stables, mills, elevators, warehouses, stores, depots, laundries, steamer and engine houses, 
dwelling house yards, areas and cellars, from asphalt, which it is claimed is more durable than any kind 
of stone. There is one thing quite certain about this kind of pavement, viz. : That 




makes the 



84 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

smoothest and most compact roadway of any known material. There is another very imi)ortant feature 
in it : Being elastic, it reduces the jar on horses hoofs and legs, and they are enabled to travel over it 
without any of the bad results that follow from continued travel over a stone road. It is also the quiet- 
est material that can be used; this is partly owing to its elasticity and partly to the smoothness of the 
surface, and is a great advantage, as it does away with the distressing rattle that is observable more or 
less in every other kind of pavement. The material from which the pavement is made comes from the 
celebrated pitch lake in the Island of Trinidad, and is a formation from vegetable matter similar to that 
which, in a temperate climate, would result in the formation of coal. This kind of pavement has only 
lately been introduced here, but in every case it has given entire satisfaction, as the testimonials of those 
who have tried it abundantly testify. One prominent citizen testifies that he knows of asphalt walks 
and driveways in Milford, Mass., that were laid sixteen years ago, and which seemed better last fall than 
when they were laid. It would not be very extravagant to prophesy that this kind of pavement will be 
largely used in this city in the near future. 

IV. H. DENNIS, Architect and Superintendent, Rooms 417-421, Rochester Building — One of 
our most noted architects and superintendents is Mr. W. H. Dennis, whose offices are in Rooms Nos. 
417 to 421, Rochester Block. He came here from New York State, where he had previously been 
practicing his profession, in the year 1879. Things were beginning to look lively in Minneapolis in 
that year, and Mr. Dennis' ability as an architect was quickly recognized. He has since practiced here 
with an ever-increasing business, and some of the most beautiful and grandest of our buildings were 
erected from his designs. Among others may be mentioned the Rochester Block, in which his offices 
are situated; Citizens' Bank, CoUom Block, Oneida Building, Mackey-Legg Building, G. R. Newell &: 
Co.'s wholesale house, which has justly been pronounced by competent judges to be the best of its kind 
in all America; F. W. Foreman's dwelling on Park Avenue, our County Court House, and the Zier 
apartment residences; but to name one-half of the important structures designed by him would of itself 
fill a large volume and far exceed the limits of the present work. 

A. F. (Sn L. E. KELLEY. Mortgage Loans, 115 Temple Court — This firm occupies large, 
sumptuous apartments upon the first floor of Temple Court, one of the finest business blocks in the 
city. Ten clerks are kept busy recording and transacting its large business. During business hours 
the scene is one of quiet and orderly but intense work. In this office are negotiated loans which bring 
Westward much of that value which is redundant in the East but scarce in the West. Messrs. Kelley 
control a large amount of New England capital, and negotiate mortgage loans on Minneapolis property 
for New England capitalists. The firm began the transaction of business in 1874, and have been 
closely identified with the giowth and prosperity of Minneapolis throughout its phenomenal period. 
During this time they have, by conducting their business on straightforward business principles, 
established a reputation which put them right up in front. They have, at the same time, contributed not 
a little to make Minneapolis what it is. Dealing with these gentlemen cannot fail to be satisfactory to 
those wishing for money on good security. 

E. I. RUGG, Artistic Photographer, No. 625 Hennepin Avenue— Mr. Rugg is making himself a 
name for fine work, which is bound to lay the foundation of a successful career. From 1879, when he 
came here from Massachusetts, until 1887, he was working on a salary. In the latter year he determined 
to strike out for himself. One very serious obstacle lay in his way, viz., he had no capital. With a 
courage that does him credit he resolved to set this consideration aside, and accordingly started his 
gallery. Notwithstanding some ups and downs, he has more than held his own, and at the present time 
is doing a nice little business, which promises to develop into a big one before long. He enlarges 
pictures in crayon, India ink, water colors and permanent bromides, and executes all sizes and styles of 



CITY OF MINXEAPOLIS. 85 

work, but makes theatrical work a specialty. His premises are neat, and, though not palatial, are 
sufficiently commodious for his present moderate practice. Some very excellent specimens of his art 
may be seen on the walls as well as in many a home in the city and suburbs. 

ASBESTINE STONE COMPANY, City Office, 323 Hennepin Avenue— The Asbestine Stone 
Company of Minneapolis have an office at No. 323 Hennepin Avenue. Their works are situated on 
Lyndale Avenue, corner of Lincoln, just beyond Lowry Hill. The company is the oldest and largest 
in the Northwest. It was established in 1874, and is composed of E. H. and F. E. Barrett and D. Elliot, 
with A. B. Merriam, special partner. They are all practical men, who, by long experience and experi- 
ment, have succeeded in making an artificial stone entirely different in its combination and enduring 
i|ualities from aii\- other stone manufactured, being more like natural stune in its color and formation. 




It has a reputation in this country from East to West for beauty and durability equaled by no other 
artificial stone. It is used in almost every dejiartment for building purposes, and can be seen on and 
about thousands of buildings in Minneapolis and elsewhere — as on churches, colleges, school buildings' 
residences, blocks, etc' They have invented much of the machinery used in manufacturing their stone, 
such as screening the sand, crushing and pulverizing the granite (the St. Cloud granite is used largely 
in the manufacture of their stone and walks), in sifting the cement — of which only the best grade ot 
Portland is used, no American or common cement being used in the manufacture of their stone — in the 
mixing and wetting the material, giving a far better and more perfect mixture than is possible by hand 
process. Their works are heated by steam. In the winter their stone is stored in warerooms especially 
prepared and kept warm and moist by steam until the cement has perfected a through combination with 
the other materials, thus securing the full strength of the cement. The company also manufacture a 



8G RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

superior kind of floor tiling in all colors, as handsome, more durable, and much cheaper than either 
slate or marble. Many of the finest buildings, both public and private, are constructed in whole or in 
part of the product of this company. It is more generally used for floors, steps, walks, pavements, 
curbing, flower vases, yard ornaments, etc. They also pave walks and driveways with the celebrated 
Stuart granolithic compound, pronounced superior to anything else used for the purpose in this country 
or in Europe. Prices of granolithic are far less than that of natural stone, with which it competes suc- 
cessfully. In fact, it leads as f/ie best, and is being largely used where great strength and durability is 
necessary in walks and pavements. To manufacture a good article of stone it is necessary to use the 
right kind of sand as well as cement, the right proportion of silica and other scientific ingredients. 
Without all these you have a concrete not much better than the lime and sand mixture. The company 
makes sidewalks a specialty, and are the pioneers in that business in this city and the West. They have 
laid the greater part of the stone walks in this city. They make their paving stone in the winter, so 
they may be old and well cured when laid. No stone is fit to use until it has age and has become hard. 
The company employs from fifty to seventy-five men in the works and in putting down walks, etc. 
They use from 10,000 to 15,000 barrels of Portland cement annually, and have about $75,000 invested 
in the business. This company has purchased cement for the last fifteen years of the celebrated and 
world-renowned Empire Warehouse Company, of Chicago, who ship the cement direct from the manu- 
factories in Germany and England to this company. A visit to the works of this company will repay 
any one, and they will be surprised at the perfection to which this company has brought their art and 
methods of manufacture. The Asbestine Stone Company have reason to be proud of the part they 
have had in furnishing such a fine class of artificial stone sidewalks as our city rightly boasts of — it 
being a fact that no city in the country can show so many miles of fine sidewalks as Minneapolis. 

£. IV. FISK, Architect and Superintendent, 56 Tribune Building — Burnham W. Fisk, architect 
and superintendent. Mr. Fisk is a thoroughly competent architect and has enjoyed many advantages in 
his early training, having studied under Mr. G. B. Croff, well-known as the architect of many heavy 
commercial buildings in Saratoga, and considered one of the finest architects of his day. Mr. Fisk 
came here in 1872 and commenced practice for himself ten years later. During part of his career he 
was in partnership with Mr. Kees. Among their first work here was the Syndicate Block, one of the greatest 
ornaments of the city. The First Baptist Church, J. W. Johnson's Bank Building and his residence were 
also designed by him. He found at one time that he ran a great deal into church work, but he prefers 
residence work, and indeed makes a specialty of it. He is now engaged in designing some fine buildings 
which will ere long grace the city and suburbs. He has in charge the Universities of Northern Dakota, 
in itself quite an important work. 

GERMANIA BREWING COMPANY, Office, Boston Block— This brewery was established 
three years ago as the Germania Brewing Association. In 1888 it was organized as it stands at present. 
John Vander-Horck, President; H. A. Westphal, Vice-President; John B. Mueller, Secretary, and Jacob 
Barge, Treasurer. The brewery is situated at Golden Valley, adjoining the city limits, and has a capac- 
ity of 200 barrels a day. It is fitted up with an entirely new plant of the very best description, in this 
respect comparing favorably with any brewery in the State. The brewing is on the Bavarian principle. 
Two kinds of beer are brewed — the Muenchener beer, made expressly for family use, from selected 
hops and malt, and another and paler beer. Both are strictly pure. The hops used in the manufact- 
ure of the beer are imported from Bavaria and the malt is selected from the best brands. In Bavaria 
the adulteration of beer is made a criminal offense; any person found guilty forfeits the whole of his 
plant and is imprisoned. The Germania Brewing Company has started with the determination that 
whatever else may happen they will produce a beer absolutely pure. Physicians are daily recommend- 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 87 

ing the use of the beer to their patients. The aim of the company is to get the private trade as much 
as possible, and the beer is for the most part sold bottled. This trade has increased more than 500 fold 
since January ist. The general trade has also increased; it extends all over Dakota and this State, 
besides that in and around the city. There can be no doubt that the adulteration of beer has done 
much to increase intemperance, and an institution like the Germania Brewing Company, whose primary 
aim is to produce a strictly pure beverage, should receive abundant support. It is gratifying to see that 
this support they are evidently receiving in an increasing degree. 

/. Z>. BLAKE, Real Estate, Rooms 45 and 46 Tribune Building— Mr. Blake is a natjve of Ver- 
mont. In 1S60 he came to Rochester, this State, and in 1S82 to Minneapolis. He is the father, so to 
speak, of New Boston, Northeast Minneapolis. At the time he first came here, one red farm house 
represented the place ; it is now a city in itself. In this part Mr. Blake has large investments. He has 
built one hundred houses and sold them out at one or two hundred dollars down, and four to six dol- 
lars a week without interest. These weekly payments are peculiar to himself. There is no direct profit 




:entkal Park Terrace. 



in this scheme of Mr. Blake's, but profit accrues indirectly by reason of the enhanced value of the neigh- 
boring property. Mr. Blake had one-half interest in Third Avenue Addition, all now improved, and 
one-half of Baker's Addition. Mr. Blake is owner of Central Park Terrace, a very valuable and unique 
property on Spruce Place, West Grant Street and Willow Street, fronting on Central Park, a few minutes' 
walk from the business center of the city, with motor and horse cars passing near it. It comprises 
eighteen elegant residences, which he has constructed regardless of expense and has had elaborately 
finished. Its system, sanitary arrangements and accommodations exceed anything heretofore attempted. 
It is supplied with hs own plant and boiler house in a separate building with light, water and heat. 
Altogether it is a most complete arrangement and reflects great credit upon Mr. Blake. The rents in 
this terrace are exceedingly moderate, and considering the many advantages, lower than any others in 
the city. 

/. Ji. CLARK Q^ CO., Boxes and Wooden Specialties — This industry stands as a monument to 
the energy and unceasing efforts of its founder, J. R. Clark, who is now a resident of the Pacific Slope. 
The works are managed at present by his son, who is a member of the partnership and familiar in every 
way with the duties of the position, being also a native-born Minnesotian. Everything in the line of 



88 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

boxes, ladders and wooden specialties are made, and the trade, which is chiefly in Minnesota, is an 
exclusively wholesale one. The factory employs thirty hands^ and the plant, which is one of the finest 
and most complete anywhere in the N-erthwcst, is owned and controlled exclusively by the firm. As 
affording an illustration of the growth of the business, it may not be amiss to mention in this connection 
that Mr. Clark's only aid when he started the industry was a force consisting of only one boy. 

B/G BOSTON CLOTHING STORE, Whitten, Burdett & Young, Proprietors, Corner Wash- 
ington and Second Avenues South — Messrs. Whitten, Burdett & Young, the proprietors of the mammoth 
clothing house known as the "Big Boston," are Eastern gentlemen, and have similar establishments in 
Boston, Providence, Hartford, New Haven and Worcester. They purchased the interest in the 
establishment here in July, 1888, from Mr. E. H. Steele, who had successfully carried on the business 
since 1874. The premises consist of a fine six-story brick building at the corner of Washington and 
Second Avenues South, the whole of which is devoted to the business. Here may be found every 
description of men's and boys' clothing, including hats, caps, furs and furnishing goods, all manu- 
factured by the proprietors. The stock carried is valued at $125,000, and any one who is unable to 
find what he wants, either in style, material or manufacture, must indeed be hard to please. The retail 
sales alone foot up to the large sum of $350,000 jser annum, and are steadily on the increase. A large 
staff of clerks, numbering about fifty, is employed in this department alone. In the wholesale depart- 
ment there are two experienced traveling salesmen, who make Mmneapolis their headquarters. 

/. W. WHITTIER d^' CO., Contractors and Builders, Rear 415 Nicollet Avenue— This firm is 
composed of Mr. J. \< . Whittier and Mr. W. E. W. Whittier, both American born. They furnish 
estimates on all kinds of buildings, and make a specialty of store-fitting and jobbing, and their work is 
always good, as they employ none but experienced and skillful workmen. Both the members 
of the firm are energetic and painstaking in all they do, and the result is they have built up a good trade, 
which is increasing each year. Among the works in which they have been engaged are the Plymouth 
Clothing Houses, both here and in St. Paul, both of which they built and fitted up. They also put up 
two blocks for Lyman Bros., but the greater part of their business consists of interior work. They 
employ about twenty hands, and the value of trade done in a year is $35,000. 

DEMPSIES NEW PHOTOGRAPH ROOMS, 316 Nicollet Avenue— Mr. Dempsie suc- 
ceeded to this business about a year ago. It was originally established about ten years ago, when it 
was conducted on a small scale. Mr. Dempsie had previously been carrying on business in other parts 
of the city, and is a practical photographer in every sense of the word. His aim has been to produce 
good pictures at as low a price as possible, and he has certainly succeeded in meeting with a large 
success, for at his studio four pictures by the tinty|ie process may be obtained for the small sum of 
twenty-five cents. He has five rooms devoted to the business, which are conveniently fitted up for the 
purposes for which they are required. He executes every desciption of photographic work, trans- 
parencies, copying and enlarging, and has some very fine specimens on view. 

CHAS. A. PILLSBURY Q^ CO., Manufacturers of Choicest Grades Patent Roller Flour— 
Chas. A. Pillsbury & Co. are the largest millers in the world, and it is a remarkable fact that no one 
member of the firm was ever in the milling business prior to their commencing in that line here in 
1869. In that year Charles A. Pillsbury, senior member of the present firm, came here from New 
Hampshire and purchased an interest in a mill of about 200 barrels capacity on the west side of the 
Mississippi River. This was destroyed by fire, and the mill now known as the "B" mill was built on 
the site. The firm operated several mills on the West Side before they built the great "A" mill on the 
East Side. In 1879 this mill was commenced and it was completed in 1881. A canal was specially 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 89 

cut, at a great cost, to supply it with power. Every modern invention to save labor and insure perfec- 
tion in the production of the flour was applied, and the result is that "Pillsbury's Best" is known 
throughout the world as a brand without an equal. This mill is equipped with two Victor Turbine 
water-wheels of 1,450 horse-power each, so placed that they can either be operated singly or together, 
besides a 1,400 horse-power engine. The milhng machinery in it consists of 400 pairs of rollers, 200 
middlings purifiers, 20 run of stone, and 200 bolting reels. The daily capacity is 7,200 barrels, which 
is more than is made by any other two mills on the face of the globe. It takes 9,500,000 bushels of 
wheat yearly to supply its demands. A system is in vogue of allowing the employes of a certain stand- 
ing to participate in the profits, which has been found to operate most satisfactorily to' both employers 
and employed, and at the same time may be regarded as an evidence of the kindly feeling of generosity 
which actuates the firm in all its dealings towards its employes. Besides this gigantic mill the firm 
operate mill "B, " already referred to, which has a capacity of 2,000 barrels, at)d "Anchor" mill, with a 
capacity of 1,500 barrels, both of which are also fitted with the best machinery known in the milling 
trade. The firm employ at least 500 men, besides those engaged in cooperage and other matters 
dependent upon the milling business. 

C/rV MARKET FISH STALL, M. Leisses, Proprietor— Mr. m". Leisses, of the City Market 
Fish Stall, does an excellent trade in fish and oysters, in which he makes a specialty. His business is 
"both that of a dealer and a commission merchant, and a good many tons of fish pass through his hands 
annually. The goods are principally obtained from Green Bay, Bayfield, Ashland, Duluth, South Per- 
ham and Brainerd. These supplies are supplemented by the produce of the different lakes in the vicinity 
-of the city. In addition to the business in fish and oysters, a considerable trade is done in game in 
season and poultry, also in early vegetables. The stall where the business is carried on is conveniently 
situated in the City Market, and at all times the seeker after fish may find what is desired, from the 
lordly salmon to the smallest fry ever used for food, each in its proper season. Mr. Leisses was born 
in Wisconsin. 

THE TAB ST BREWING COMPANY, 112 South Third Street— The bottling department here 
of the Pabst Brewing Company, formerly Philip Best Brewing Company, is a large concern, and one 
which is fast growing to something very big. Mr. R. Steinmetz is the manager of the concern, and is 
a man of very fine business ability, pushing, energetic and at the same time courteous and affable. The 
merits of the Philip Best beers have been established so firmly and for so many years that it is unneces- 
sary to dwell upon them here. The different brands handled at this place are chiefly the Export, which 
is a fine beer, possessing great body; the Bohemian, somewhat lighter; the Bavarian, a dark colored and 
easily digested beer, and the Select, a very fine quality of pale beer. Besides these there is the Best 
Tonic, which is a concentrated liquid extract of malt and hops, and is strongly recommended by the 
medical faculty as a useful and harmless restorative in cases of debility, whether from over-work, 
over-study, or any other cause. There are about ten hands employed in the bottling, and all the best 
labor-saving appliances are in use, so that a. large amount of work is done by them. There are also 
four teams employed. , 

S. J. SHERMAN, Dispensing Pharmacist, 424 Nicollet Avenue — One of our most prominent 
self-made men is Mr. S. J. Sherman, Dispensing Pharmacist, of No. 424 Nicollet Avenue. Mr. Sher- 
man was born and brought up near Boston, Mass. At the age of sixteen he conceived the idea of com- 
ing West to push his fortunes, and most ably has he carried that idea mto practice. After going from 
place to place, without losing sight of his original intention, he finally settled upon this city as the most 
promising field for his labors. Eleven years ago he commenced business in his present stand. At that 
time the property now worth two thousand dollars per front foot, was only worth as many hundreds. 



90 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

People laughed at him for selecting such a location — there were probably less passers-by in a whole day 
than there now are in any five minutes. However, with the strong belief in the future of the place, 
which in some few men appears to amount almost to an instinct, he persevered in his business ; and, 
although at first he sometimes only took in three dollars a day — his predictions have been more than rea- 
lized; for the spot in which he is located is one of the best business centers in the whole city, and he 
has now a large and flourishing business, requiring, besides his own supervision, the aid of two compe- 
tent assistants. His immense and varied stock is ever fresh, so quickly does his large trade keep it 
moving. Nor is this all, for in addition to his business he owns real estate worth at least fifty thousand 
dollars in the city, besides a large stock ranch in McPherson County, Dakota. 

HOLMES 6- BROWN, Proprietors of Fair Ground Addition, Real Estate, 329 Boston Block- 
Mr. E. G. Holmes and Mr. O. D. Brown, the members of this firm, are two of the most substantial real 
estate operators in the city. They are doing a general real estate business, but principally handle 
their own property. It is only by way of exchange that they ever go outside of this in their dealings. 

Nevertheless they have 

„ ,.. : - ^ — at the present time 

upwards of $100,000 
worth of improved prop- 
erty in the city which has 
come into their hands in 
this way. Their princi- 
pal interest lies in the 
Fair Ground Addition, 
65 acres of beautiful 
land platted in 1887. 
There are now seventy 
nice houses built and a 
$35, 000 school house. 
There have been more 
buildings put up on this 
property in the last 
twelve months than on any other addition in the city. In exchanging lots in this addition for other 
property, the proprietors have made it a condition that no residence of less than $1,800 value shall be 
erected thereon. This property possesses many valuable features. It is no isolated addition, standing 
by itself without any convenient means of access, but it is directly on the public highway between the 
two cities, has two lines of street cars, and is just two blocks from the Short Line depot. There are 
contemplated improvements in the immediate neighborhood which will greatly enhance the value of 
the property. In addition to the large interests in real estate here possessed by this firm, they are 
owners of the First National Bank of Detroit, Minnesota. 

H. C. PETERSON, Wholesale and Retail Grocer, Produce Commission Merchant, 116 Hennepin 
Avenue — Mr. Peterson commenced business on his own account in 1873, when be bought out the pro- 
prietor of the store where he had been working. In 1875 he started a wholesale and retail grocery at 1 19 
Washington Avenue South. In 1876 he opened six other stores in different parts of the city, retaining 
the old stand. In 1883 he sold all out and went to California. He soon after came back and bought a 
shoe store, 403 Washington Avenue South. This he sold to his brother and again started a grocery 
business. In 1886 he bought out Z. DeMeules' grocery and removed to his present quarters in 1888. 




CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 91 

This year he agaia started a business at his old stand, 127 Washington Avenue South. It has been said 
that a rolling stone gathers "no inoss. This may be the rule, but Mr. Peterson is certainly a brilliant 
exception, for he has always managed to gather more and more moss every time he has rolled from one 
place to another. He is now doing a fine trade, employing fifteen hands and sending goods to all parts. 

DANZ'S BAND, 509 and 511 Syndicate Block — This is the chief band in the city, and was 
organized many years ago by Frank Danz, Sr., father of the present leader. Mr. Frank Danz, Jr., the 
present leader of the band, is a musician of many years' experience, having been for a long time one of 
the leading violinists in Theodore Thomas' orchestra, one of the finest on the continent. The full 
strength of the Danz Band is fifty pieces. To those who were privileged to listen to their charming 
music at the Exposition and State Fair during the last two seasons it is unnecessary to say one word of 
praise. Suffice it to say that the thousands who visited the above named institutions were unanimous in 
praising the efforts of the band. Every winter a weekly concert is gi^en at Harmonia Hall here by this 
band. It is, in fact, the only full band in the city, and the quality of the music is grand, aside from the 
renditions of the the leading soloists, places it in the front rank of musical organizations in this country. 

SEXTON 6- RAFTER Y, Sixth Avenue Creamery, 616 Sixth Avenue South— A recent addition 
to the dairy interests of Minneapolis is the Sixth Avenue Creamery, located at 616 Sixth Avenue South. 
This creamery was established January 20, 1889, by Messrs. Sexton & Raftery. This young firm is 
composed of practical men, who understand the creamery business in all its details. Their trade is 
almost entirely wholesale. Their special production is that of butter, which they sell to the grocers of 
Minneapolis and St. Paul. The daily output is now about 600 pounds, and rapidly increasing. Their special 
makes are the "Daisy" and "Creamery." They have also commenced the wholesaling of milk and other 
dairy products. About seventy-five gallons of milk are now received daily from Prescott, Wisconsin, 
and Dundas, Minnesota. Four hands are constantly employed, which number will be shortly increased. 

THE MINNESOTA STONE COMPANY, General Contractors, Wm. F. Van Voris, General 
Agent, Office, Room 14, 408 Nicollet Avenue — Mr. William P'. Van Voris, is the President, Secretary 
and General Manager of this company. They deal in almost all kinds of natural stone, particularly 
Kasota, Bayfield brown stone, Lamont limestone, Ohio sandstone, Mankato stone, New York blue 
stone (of which they are the only parties who handle it in the city), granites from St. Cloud and Orton- 
ville. Many of the buildings in the city are constructed of stone supplied by them, among others the 
Wolf and McCormick Block of Mankato stone ; Wright Block, Hennepin Avenue, of brown stone ; the 
Post-office basement of St. Cloud granite. Their business is steadily on the increase, the demand for 
good building stones getting greater every year. They make a specialty of heavy bridge masonry and cut 
stone, flagging for sidewalks, Lamont vault covers and flagging of every description. All their work is 
promptly and efficiently executed. Their business has already reached a jvolume from $50,000 to 
$60,000 a year. 

y. H. DA VIS CN BRO., Meat Market, 250 First Avenue South — This popular market was 
established in 1882, by Mr. J. S. Davis, who came to this city from Mankato, where he had been estab- 
lished in the meat business for many years. He first located at 300 First Avenue South, where he 
employed three men. October ist of the same year he removed to his present location. In 1886 his 
brother, Mr. J. H. Davis, came to this city and entered into partnership with him. Their business has 
shown a constant increase, and they now occupy the entire three-story building at 250 First Avenue 
South. Mr. Davis and his brother are Vermont men. They came to Wisconsin in 1848, and in 186 1 
came to Minnesota. In 1867 they commenced business in Mankato. Their business in Minneapolis 
has kept pace with the growth of the city; to accommodate their increasing trade they established in 



92 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

1886 a branch market at 1214 and 1216 Washington Avenue South. They emiiloy eighteen men and 
run four dehvery wagons for their retail trade. Their business now aggregates $135,000 yearly, and is 
constantly increasing. They do all their own packing and cure all the hams and bacon used by their 
trade. They also have a complete equipment for the making of all kinds of sausage. They also have 
a large refrigerator on Nicollet Island. 

FLOUR CITY NATIONAL BANK, Lumber Exchange, Corner Hennepin Avenue and Fifth 
Street — This is comparatively a young bank in Minneapolis, its origin only dating from September ist, 
1887, but its flourishing condition, and the volume of business to which it has already attained, entitles 

it to a leading place 
among the most pro- 
gressive and substan- 
tially reliable finan- 
cial "institutions of 
the city. It has an 
autjhorized capital, 
under the Minnesota 
banking law, of $2,- 
000,000, one-fifth of 
which was paid in be- 
fore the commence- 
ment of business, 
and on January ist 
following another 
$100,000 was added, 
making the actual 
c apital $500,000. At 
the close of its first 
year's business it had 
accumulated in sur- 
plus funds and un- 
divided profits about 
$50,000, and its de- 
posits had passed 
the half-million mark. 
The offices of the 
bank in the I,umber 
E.xchange building. 




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on Hennepin Avenue, opposite the famous West Hotel, are unsurpassed in the city, and the facilties 
controlled for the efficient transaction of all legitimate banking business are of the very best, as it has 
correspondence with prominent banks all over the world. The directors of the bank are all men of 
more than usual prominence in Northwestern affairs, as will readily be seen by glancing over the list 
of those who comprise that body, as follows : T. B. Walker (the president), George A. Pillsbury, C. L. 
Waldo, A. C. Ackeley, S. G. Cook, John Vonder Horck, Henry Hill, C. P. Jones, John Edwards, 
H. E. Selden, J. H. Thompson, W. A. Barnes and C. H. Chadbourne. The officers of the bank, in 
addition to Mr. Walker, are George E. Maxwell, Cashier, and J. P. Williamson, Assistant Cashier. 



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C. W. KERRICK &= CO., Contractors, 22 Stillnian Block— Mr. Kerrick himself is the principal 
of this concern. He was formerly superintendent of bridges and buildings for the Manitoba Road in 
this city and has been here for eight years. He was born in Greensburg, Indiana. He prefers working 
by contract to working as a paid employe, and has therefore severed his connection with the Manitoba 
Road, but still continues to execute work for them. He now has a contract with them for $3,000 worth 
of work. He constructed all the bridging on the Eastern Railway of Minnesota. Last year his con- 
tracts with tliem amounted $150,000. He has now a great many contracts on hand in various parts: 
Grand Forks, Dakota, $25,000, $3,000 for the Manitoba Railway, already mentioned; the Court House, 
Granite Falls, $10,000. He makes a specialty of heavy contracts, bridges and buildings. He employs 
about 300 men, and last year his work amounted to about $125,000. In addition to his business as a 
bridge builder, Mr. Kerrick has a lumber mill at Holyoke, in this State, on the East Minneapolis 
Railway. 

MERCER & TOIVLER, Minneapolis Steam Laundry, 109 Soiith Second Street— This laundry 
was established about fifteen years ago by Meagher Brothers. The concern came into the hands of the 
present head of the firm, T. E. Mercer, about five years ago, and he was joined by Mr. S. H. Towler in June 
of this year. All the work is done by steam, for which every modern appliance and improvement is in 
use. First-class work is guaranteed and goods are called for and delivered free to all parts of the city. 
Three delivery wagons are thus kept busy all the time. The trade is principally in the city and is very 
extensive and constantly on the 'increase, -\bout twenty hands are employed and it is in all respects 
one of the principal laundries in the city. 

SCANDIA BANK OF MINNESOTA, Corner Cedar— I'he organization of this bank, in 1883, 
supplied a want long felt by the merchants and business men of South Minneapolis, and that they readily 
showed their appreciation of the same is evidenced by the fact that a good and increasing custom has 
been enjoyed by the bank from the very start. It has a paid up capital of $60,000, and the surplus and 
undivided profits, after paying fair dividends to its stockholders, are in amount equal to half as much 
more. It has a good deposit account and its loans and discounts are equal to its capacity to supply 
such demands, which indicates a most healthy condition. The bank does, also, quite a business in the 
sale of ocean steamship tickets, having some 500 different agencies throughout the Northwest in this 
line, and handling thousands of tickets each year. The officers of the corporation are R. Lunde, Presi- 
dent; Mons Grinager, Vice-President, and k. C. Haugan, Cashier, the latter being one of the prominent 
public men of Minneapolis and a conspicuous member of the present city council. 

DORSETT&' COMPANY, Fashionable Caterers, 418 Nicollet Avenue— This is one of the best 
known houses in the city in its line. They are manufacturers of May's celebrated frozen creams, 
fruit ices, cake, trifles, jellies, etc. There are four stories in the building devoted to this business, 
and in them are private banquet parlors for opera suppers, wedding and other ceremonies. Any one 
desiring a banquet served at his own home with all the requisites of Dresden china, silver, damask, 
servants, lunch tables, chairs, etc., has only to write to Dorsett & Co. and lo and behold ! at the 
moment appointed the whole thing will make its appearance like a fairy scene. A very large business 
is done in ice cream of the best quality, but everything in the place is of the best quality. Dorsett & 
Company make cake without either soda or baking powder, justly claiming that it is impossible to make 
them as good with either of those articles. The members of the firm are Mr. C. \V. Dorsett, Mrs. M. A. 
Dorsett and A. Blodgett, all Americans. 

LINDSA Y BROTHERS. Manufacturers' Agents and Jobbers in Agricultural Implements, 104 
and 106 Third Avenue North — The members of this firm are Mr. William Lindsay, who is a native of 
Scotland, and Mr. T. B. Lindsay, who was born New York City. They have been in Minneapolis since 



94 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

1881. The business was established in 1S86. They deal in all kinds of agricultural implements, bug- 
gies and carriages. Among the different manufacturers with whom they have deal ngs are John Dodds, 
of Dayton, O., sulky hay-rake; Scandia Plow Company, Rockford, 111., plows, harrows and corn- 
cultivators; the Janesville Machine Co., Janesville, Wis., seeders and disc harrows; Joseph Dick Agri- 
cultural Works, Canton, O., feed-cutters; Hocking Valley Manufacturing Co., Lancaster, O., corn- 
shellers and feed-cutters; Seckler & Co., Ohio, buggies and carriages; also, S. L. Allen & Co., known 
as the Planet, Jr., farm and garden implements. They also handle binding twine of leading manufact- 
urers. Their trade is quite e.xtensive, averaging from $200,000 to $300,000 per annum. 

COLUMBIA MILL CO.., Manufacturers of Flour — The flour mill is worked by both steam and 
water-power. It is fitted with all the modern labor-saving appliances and improvements, and has a very 
fine location on the Minneapolis Eastern Railroad tracks. It has a daily capacity of 1,600 barrels' 
The officers of the corporation are Mr. J. B. Bassett, President; Mr. Horace S. Wade, Vice-President; 
Mr. E. Zeidler, General Manager and Treasurer, and Mr. F. D. Zimmerman, Superiatendent. The 
brands of flour manufactured are the Columbia, Golden Rod and Superlative, for patent brands; Ceres 
and American, for bakers' use; the Dakota, for second bakers', and Varna, for low grade. The pro- 
ducts are shipped to the Eastern States and to the United Kingdom, Holland and Germany, and the 
ports on the Continent of Europe. There are about thirty-five hands employed at this mill. Mr. Bas- 
sett has a saw mill, run under the firm name of J. B. Bassett & Co. 

N. P. CLARKE &• COMPANY, Wholesale Lumber, Office Lumber Exchange— Twenty-five 
years ago saw the start of the immense business done by N. P. Clarke & Co. Since that time the firm 
has grown to proportions second to none of its competitors. Their mills in Minneapolis are well known, 
situated on the East Side, by the falls. They have also mills at St. Cloud, Little Falls and Winnipeg, 
Manitoba, and their reputation is co-extensive with the territory covered by Northwest lumbermen. The 
total capacity of their mills is 75,000,000 feet per year, and these, with their camps and whole equipment, 
give employment ta about fifteen hundred men. Their trade extends to every product of white pine, and 
they are one of the bulwarks of this city of lumber and flour. The members of the firm are N. P. 
Clarke and F. H. Clarke. 

J. M. HOWES, Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Confectionery, Etc., 41 Eleventh Street 
South — This grocery is located in the heart of one of the best residence districts in Minneapolis, be- 
tween Hennepin and Nicollet Avenues, and it controls a class of trade of as desirable a character as 
can be found anywhere in the city. The business was established in 1887, by Mr. Howes himself, and 
the progress which has been made in the way of advancing its interests speaks most flatteringly of the 
enterprise and business tact of the proprietor, as his trade is constantly and steadily on the increase. 
The stock of goods kept is in every way fully in keeping with the character of the locality and the class 
of custom which it is intended to supply, being first-class in every respect. A good cigar and tobacco 
trade is also done in connection with the business, and a specialty is made of fine table luxuries, fancy 
groceries and choice brands of family flour. 

UNION RAILWAY STORAGE COMPANY, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Building 
Material, Storage and Forwarding, No. 50 Third Street South — This company, besides its storage busi- 
ness, does a large trade in building material, both wholesale and retail. It was incorporated in 1883, and 
the officers are H. M. Carpenter, President, who has been here for about thirty-five years, and who 
came from Providence, R. I. ; H. E. Carpenter, Secretary, who has been here for fifteen years, and hails 
from North Vermont, and J. S. Homan, General Manager, who hails from Quincy, 111., and came here 
in 1883. They are all pushing business men, and it would be strange if any concern which had their 
experience, commercial ability and industry at its head did not turn out a great success. The company 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 95 

are sole agents for ATilwaukee cement, Dyckerhoff Portland cement, "Gem City" white lime, two and 
three-ply prepared roofing; special agents Louisville cement, importers of Portland cement, dealers in 
lime, cement, plaster, hair, common brick, fire brick, pressed brick, mortar color, terra cotta, sewer 
pipe, drain tile, etc. They obtain pressed brick from St. Louis, Mo., and La Salle, 111. The common 
brick is manufactured in Minneapolis and towns adjacent. The terra cotta comes from St. Louis and 
Illinois. They do a business of from one hundred and fifty thousand to one hundred and seventy-five 
thousand dollars per annum in building materials alone, besides the storage, which is considerable. 

VAZ. BLATZ BOTTLING DEPARTMENT, 245 Second Avenue^ South, R. Mueller. Man- 
ager — Through this agency the world-renowned beer of this company is distributed through the North- 
west. Mr. Rudolph Mueller is the manager of the concern, and has had great experience in the 
Inisiness. He is an energetic and live business man, who neglects no opportunity of furthering the 




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interests of the company, and is pushing the trade further and further through the country. A very 
large bottling business is carried on here, from three to five carloads of beer in a week being handled 
in this way and in fillfng the small orders. The trade extends over the whole of Minnesota and Dakota, 
but the amount of beer consumed at the works here forms no indication of the volume of trade done 
through the agency, as a large part of the beer is shipped direct from Milwaukee to the customers, and 
some of them using as much as ten carloads in a week. The bookkeeper, Mr. Goebel, is very efficient 
jU his branch of the work, and has his hands kept pretty full. 

SEXTON Cf WELSH, Dealers in Staple and Fancy Groceries, 29 Fourth Street South — Mr. 
William Welsh is a native of this city and Mr. Sexton was born in this State. In 1865 they established 
the grocery business here in the store they now occupy. They have a very fine location, being close to 



96 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

the Post-Office, where thousands of people pass their doors every day. They have been doing a 
business of some seventy-five thousand dollars annually, but are increasing the volume of trade every 
week ; and this year the amount will necessarily be much larger than in any of those past. Their business 
is all in the city. They employ about si.\ hands and employ two delivery wagons. Both the partners 
are young men and have doubtless a prosperous future before them. 

WINTER &• L UECK, Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silverware and Clocks, 243 Nicollet Avenue 
— This firm has one of the finest jewelry stores in the city. It is situated in about the best part of the 
business center. No. 243 Nicollet Avenue. Both the members of this firm, Mr. R. G. Winter and Mr. 
Frank Lueck, came to this country from Germany and they are both enterprising and able businessmen. 
The business was established by Mr. Winter in 1876, and Mr. Lueck joined the concern in 1886. They 
carry a fine stock of diamonds, watches, jewelry, silverware and clocks, and are doing a good, healthy 
trade, which is always on the increase. The long store, with its beautiful windows and magnificent rows 
of show-cases, is most attractive and well worth a visit by those who contemplate purchasing goods in 
the lines handled by this firm. The stock is valued at about twenty thousand dollars. 

BROWN BROS., Merchant Tailors, 241 Second Avenue South and Big Boston — This business 
was originally established by E. H. Steela, in- 1876, and the Brown Brothers succeeded to it about a 
year ago. Their stock of woolens is a fine and well selected one, and consists chiefly of imported 
goods, as they cultivate the highest class of trade. It is valued at seven thousand dollars. They have 
an excellent established trade, which extends outside the city, for they do quite a good deal of country 
trade, and their annual sales reach to about forty-five thousand dollars. Mr. E. O. Brown and Mr. Ole 
Brown, the two members of this firm, were born in Norway, but have been in Minneapolis since 1872, 
and are consequently well known and respected. Mr. O. E. Brown has been in the tailoring business 
since he was twelve years of age, and, of course, thoroughly understands the trade. In addition to the 
tailoring establishment they have an interest in two large restaurants in the city. This, however, is 
only a kind of side interest, for the utilizing of surplus capital. 

BOSTON ICE COMPANY, 323 Hennepin Avenue — This company was established in 1885 by 
the present proprietors, I.. J. Bartlett, E. E. Bartlett, R. L. Taylor and E. Taylor. Their crop of ice 
is cut from Long Lake, on the Soo Road, about' seven miles from the city, and from Lake Calhoun, and 
is of great purity. About 20,000 tons were stored the past winter, and each year there is an increase 
in the demand. They employ about twenty hands and eleven wagons. The annual trade amounts to 
upwards of $30,000. Mr. L. Bartlett, the secretary of the concern, is an agreeable and obliging gen- 
tleman, and ever ready to attend to the wishes of those who deal with the company. 

PALACE CLOTHING COMPANY, High Art Clothiers, 43 and 45 Washington Avenue 
South — This house opened in September, 1888, as the Minneapolis branch of the great Palace Clothing 
Factory, with headquarters at Chicago. The Minneapolis branch employs at present forty-six people, all 
of whom are engaged in retailing under the management of Maurice L. Rothschild, formerly manager of 
Rothschild Clothing Company. Attention is paid especially to the manufacture of high class and the 
better grade of ready-made clothing for men, boys and children. A stock is carried of about $128,000. 
Their location is pleasant and central and they enjoy a very large trade. Three men are kept on the 
road. The business has been very satisfactory and Minneapolis has proven a fit place for the establish- 
ment of such an enterprise as the home house has here ventured. 

WHITING SHIRT COMPANY, 312 and 314 First Avenue North, Office 601 Hennepin 
Avenue — This concern was orignally established in 1872 by Mulford & Whiting at Dubuque, Iowa. In 
1881 Mr. H. C. Carlisle became associated as a partner and Mr. Mulford left the concern soon after. 
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CITY OF MnVNEAPOLIS. 97 

of Mr. Carlisle. It was then incorporated as the Whiting Shirt Company, with a capital of $50,000. 
The officers are Nelson P. Whiting, President ; Fred E. Whiting, Vice-President ; H. C. Mulford, Treas- 
urer; and Roger Charlton, Secretary. They are wholesale and retail manufacturers of shirts and under- 
wear. They have a very extensive trade all over the whole Northwest, employing six men on the road. 
They have also from 75 to 100 hands at work in the factory. Their specialty is making shirts to order. 
Their trade amounts to about $100,000 annually and it is all the time increasing. 

PEOPLES ICE COMPANY, Office, 6 Third Street South— Mr. J. M. Collins is the principal 
proprietor in this company. He has been in Minneapolis for a number of ytars, and was formerly with 
the Cedar Lake Ice Company. This company has now been established for two years, and already 
the demand for ice has far outstripped the amount contained in the company's stores. The plan of 
the company is to make monthly contracts with parties, under which they agree to supply so much ice 
per day. This ice is delivered in the company's wagons. The experience of this year will no doubt 
induce the company to increase their store next winter, so that they may be able to meet all the 
demands that may be made upon them. Their present success is mainly due to the popularity of the 
ice in which they deal, which is of great purity, and to the fact that strict attention is given to the busi- 
ness by the proprietors themselves, who are quite young men, and who possess all the qualities 
necessary to build up a good and thriving business. 

NORTHWESJ'ERN PACKING HOUSE, B. W. Frost, Proprietor, 1017 Washington Avenue 
South — The Northwestern Packing House was established in the fall of 18S5. 'I'he firm occupies the 
first floor and basement of 10 17 Washington Avenue South, and devote their attention exclusively to 
packing beef and pork. Mr. Frost brought to the business, experience and capital, and soon placed 
the establishment in the front rank of Washington Avenue markets. Their attention is almost exclu- 
sively devoted to the retail trade, and they make a specialty of supplying hotels and restaurants. They 
also make a specialty of hams, kettle-rendered lard and sausage, which are prepared in their own estab- 
lishment. They have a complete equipment for the manaufacture of sausage, and their trade in this 
l^roduct is very large. Four men and two teams are constantly employed. 

THE MOON " SPOT CASH" GROCERY, 802 Nicollet Avenue— The proprietor of this es- 
tablishment is Mr. Daniel McGrigor, of Mason City, Iowa, and he is ably represented here by Mr. H. 
G. Roth, the manager and general superintendent of the concern, who came herefrom Springfield, Ohio. 
The business has not long been established here, but is increasing very rapidly. It is principally retail, 
but there is also some wholesale trade done. The terms are strictly cash, and no deviation whatever is 
allowed from that principle. Sometimes a lady will order a small bill of goods, and say that she will 
send the money in an hour or so. The answer is always a request that she will fetch the money first. 
Sometimes this gives offense, and customers are lost, but usually they come back again, and in many 
cases they have the good sense to know that the rules of the house forbid any deviation from the cash 
principle, and swallow their irritation. There is a stock valued at about $4,000, which is nice and clean, 
and the business is increasing so rapidly that it promises ere long to be a very large concern. The an- 
nual trade is already about $50,000. There are about ten hands employed and two delivery wagons. 
The goods are purchased here, in Chicago, New York and St. Louis. Mr. Roth, the able manager, was 
for some years connected with the Blue Flag Grocery, Springfield, Ohio, and attributes the success of this 
enterprise to the cash principle, the small margains and the quality of the goods. 

WALES &- CO.. Pictures and Art Materials, 423 Nicollet Avenue — This is one of the pioneer 
houses of the place. Mr. W. W. Wales, who was born in North Carolina, came here so long ago as 
1851, before there was any Minneapolis on the west side of the river. He was present at the treaty 
with the Indians. The whole history of the place is, of course, at his fingers' ends, and he must often 




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pause and look with astonishment at the marvelous growth of the city. His is the leading art store of 
the place. He has on his walls and in his portfolios a fine collection of pictures of all kinds, oil paint- 
ings, water color drawings, photographs, engravings, etchings, etc. He is sole agent for Soule's 
unmounted photographs. His stock of artists' supplies is complete, comprising every kind of requisite 
that an artist could possibly call for; and great care is taken to add every new article that has any merit 
•or is likely to be in demand. In addition to the art store, Mr. Wales does a large manufacturing busi- 
ness in picture frames, of which line he makes a specialty. Gilding and regilding frames are two of the 
branches of this business to which special attention is given. Mr. Wales has the good fortune to be 
assisted in the business by his two daughters, young ladies whose courteous and obliging manners are 
■well known and appreciated by all who have occasion to transact business at the place. 

A. B. RUGG, Photographs and Portraits, 56 South Fifth Street — Mr. A. B. Rugg, the proprietor of 
the only ground floor studio in Minneapolis, is one of the most successful and well-known of the photo, 
graphic artists. All the success he has achieved is due, as he is fond of stating, to his clo^e application to 
business and general judgment and economy — /. e., not hiring hands to do work which he was capable of 
doing thoroughly well himself; and, last but not least, to making a specialty 
of good work— roffering to the public quality and not quantity, as has been 
too much the tendency with some members of his profession. He executes 
^■mT^ at LJ . J Ml all kinds of portraits known to the art, and, in fact, carries on photography 
in all its branches. His premises comprise five very handsome rooms on 
the ground floor, which are used for waiting-rooms, office and operating 
rooms, and have two very handsome show windows on Fifth Street South. 
The printing and finishing departments are upstairs and occupy six rooms. Mr. Rugg came here in 1879, 
from La Crosse, where he was with Mr. Lathrop, and ran his gallery. He was born in Boston, and left 
that city in 1877. He bought out Mr. Brown in the old Merchants' Block, 41 ^Vashington Avenue 
South, stayed there two and one-half years, moved to Nicollet Avenue, where he had a fine gallery; and 
finally moved to his present stand in in 1886. Business has prospered with Mr. Rugg from the start. 
From small beginnings he has now built it up to something like $1,200 per month. He requires the 
assistance of four competent photographic artists to carry out his numerous orders, but — and here lies 
the grand secret of his success — he never fails to exercise an active supervision over the whole concern 
and particularly looks after the financial part. Mr. Rugg has, in addition to his studio, some very sub- 
stantial witnesses to his success in the shape of houses and lands, to purchase which, in the aggregate, 
would make a very large hole in $50,000. 

EAGAN 6- CO., Retail Dealers in Staple and Fancy Groceries, 1206 Third Avenue South — This 
firm is composed of Mrs. Kate Eagan, of Minneapolis, and Miss M. Eagan, of New York City. Mr. 
John C. Eagan is the manager. The business was established in 1S87. They occupy their own build- 
ing, which was constructed expressly for their business. This building is three stories high and has a 
basement. Three men and two horses are employed. The trade is increasing rapidly.' The store is 
one of Jhe neatest and most attractive in Minneapolis. They carry a full stock of staple and fancy gro- 
ceries, canned goods, coffees, teas, spices, fruits in season, vegetables, etc. The store is most centrally 
located, and in one of the most thickly populated portions of the city. 

LOFGREN BROS., Merchant Tailors, 239 First Avenue South— The Messrs. Lofgren were 
born in Sweden, and came to America about twenty years ago. About eight years ago they came here, 
and commenced their present business. Their principle has been all along (and to it is probably owing 
much of the success that has attended their efforts) to attend to the business themselves, and they have 
carefully kept this principle in sight. They do all their own cutting and fitting, and their patrons may 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 99 

expect a square deal and satisfactory workmanship in every respect. They started in a very small way, 
with one or two workmen, and at the present time they employ nineteen or twenty, all experienced 
men, earning big wages, and their business continues to increase every year. It extends over a large 
territory, embracing Washington Territory and Missouri. Their stock is a good one, consisting of the 
finest imported and domestic woolen goods, and altogether theirs is one of the most flourishing concerns 
of its kind in the city — -the result of industry, care, and a thorough knowledge of the trade. 

ALEXANDER MURRIE, Architect and Superintendent, 608^2 JSJicollet Avenue — Mr. Murrie 
is a Scotchman by birth. He was for a number of years superintendent of special lines of buildings 
in Glasgow, Scotland. He was thoroughly trained in the best architectural schools in Scotland. He 
first went to Virginia upon leaving his native country, and thence to Mankato, and was superintendent 
of the Court House there. About four 
years ago he came to Minneapolis, and has 
designed many beautiful buildings. Among 
others, and one unique in this country on 
account of its hanging staircase, is the Pros- 
pect Park Observatory, with its beautiful 
pointed arches. Besides this there are the 
Spectator Office, the residence of Robert 
Blaisdell, Jr., and a host of others. In 
the competition for the Court House he 
took the fourth prize. He is now engaged 
on designs for some very extensive build- 
ings in the business parts of the city. Mr. 
Murrie owes his success entirely to his own 

professional merits. He has had no external aid whatever, and in an age like the present, when com- 
petition is so keen, this is no small recommendation. 

ORTMAN 6- WOELFFER, Farmers' Wholesale Grocery House, 27 Washington Avenue 
North — After an existence of twenty years this house still maintains the same leading patronage which 
it has always controlled, as the headquarters and principal depot for the wholesale farmers' trade of the 
Northwest. The firm carry one of the largest and most complete stocks of groceries in the City of 
Minneapolis, and their retail trade here is a very large and lucrative one. Their great specialty, how- 
ever, is their family wholesale trade, which they have extended all over the State and throughout Dakota. 
They keep several salesmen on the road selling goods in this way, and their shipiiients to individual 
consumers, country hotels, etc., are greatly increasing. The firm issues a monthly consumers' journal 
and price current for the benefit of their customers, in which every change in the market is accurately 
given. 

MARVIN &- CAMMACK, Proprietors of the Crescent Creameries, Minneapolis Office 31 Fifth 
Street South — Mr. Charles E. Marvin and Mr. E. A. Cammack are the proprietors of these creameries, 
which are the largest in the world. They were first started about ten years ago and the branch 
here has been in operation about two years. There are creameries at Rochester, Zumbrota, 
Kasson, Kenyon, Stanton, St. Paul, Elk River, Monticello and Cannon Falls, besides that in this 
city. And they have factories at Rochester, Salem, Byron, Bern and Pine Island. They employ about 
200 hands. They manufacture at the rate of 15,000 pounds of butter and .S.ooo pounds of cheese daily, 
and in this city they sell 1,500 gallons and in St. Paul 2,000 gallons of milk and cream daily. All their 
products are of the very finest quality. This is no doubt one of the secrets of their wonderful success. 




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An industry of this description is deserving of every encouragement. The amount of good done to a 
State by such an institution is very great. The trade in this city is chiefly local, but in St. Paul they 
have very extensive cold storage and the whole of the Western trade is handled from that point. The 
shipments westward are very extensive and are made as far as the Pacific Coast. Mr. B. S. Dodge and 
Mr. W. M. Marvin are the managers in this city. 

M. GANNON, Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Provisions, Etc., 27 First Street South — 
The business of which Mr. Gannon is now the proprietor was established in 1879. Mr. Gannon has 
been here one year, and has already made his presence felt, as the business is making rapid strides to- 
ward the large volume which ere long it is bound, under his care and guidance, to attain. Having al- 
ways on hand a large stock, which is purchased with great judgment, he is able to meet all demands, and 
every one who deals with him is sure to continue with him, as he guarantees satisfaction in all his trans- 
actions. He has two traveling men who are kept busy taking orders, and he also employs four expe- 
rienced hands in-doors. There are two wagons for delivering the retail orders in the cih' and suburbs. 
The sales already have reached a volume of $100,000 per annum, and are constantly on the increase. 

A. E. & C. E. HOLBROOK, Dealers in Inglewood Spring Water and Ice, 6 South Third Street 
— The water from Inglewood Spring is proved by analysis to be remarkably pure, being almost totally 
free from organic matter. It is recommended by the highest medical authorities for drinking purposes, 
and those are fortunate who can avail themselves of this delicious and at the same time inexpensive 
luxury. Mr. A. E. and Mr. C. E. Holbrook were born in Auburn, Maine. They came here about four 
years ago and leased the Springs at Inglewood Park. They have now established a very convenient 
system of supplying the water. Families can have jugs filled with it left at their homes, and stores and 
offices are supplied in bulk. There are ten hands employed by the concern, and eight wagons, and 
the demand for the water has so increased that the supply delivered averages about 3,000 gallons daily 
in the summer season, and about 1,500 gallons daily in the winter. The flow from the springs is 
practically inexhaustible. 

PRATT (Sn cone. Real Estate, ],oans and Insurance, Rooms 434, 435 and 436, Bank of Min- 
neapohs Building — This firm has been doing a real estate and loan business in Minneapolis since 1883. 
During the years of their business life they have handled large amounts of capital to the profit and 
entire satisfaction of their clients, and to the benefit of Minneapolis, in the form of buildings and other 
enterprises for which money is borrowed. They adopt the conservative plan in their business, and have 
established a fixed rule to themselves never to take a mortgage for more than 50% of the valuation of 
a piece of property. By doing this they secure absolute safety for the interest and principal of their 
clients, and neither in form of interest or principal has any one of their clients ever lost one cent. 
Also, where Minneapolis property is concerned the property generally increases in value during the life 
of the mortgage, and at its maturity additional incumberances may be put upon it with no diminution of 
safety. This firm also does a first-class real estate business, chiefly dealing in Eighth Ward property. 
And it is safe to say that for services in their lines of business no better or more competent men can be 
found. 

E. G. BARNABY &^ CO., Hatters and Men's Furnishers, 17 Washington and 234 Nicollet 
Avenues — Messrs. E. G. Barnaby and E. W. Goddard came to Minneapolis from Memphis, Tenn., in 
March, 1879, ^^^'- Barnaby having been in the gents' furnishing business in the latter city for eighteen 
years. They at once embarked in the same business at 17 Washington Avenue South, doing 
$20,000 worth of business the first year. They have since steadily increased their trade, reputation and 
stock. In 1888, their business had increased five hundred per cent., they doing a business of about 
$100,000 during that year. Starting with a single front on Washington Avenue and seventy feet of 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 101 

store, they now have fronts on both Nicollet and Washington Avenues and one hundred and forty feet 
of store. Employing two men and a boy the first year they now have use for twenty men. Their stock 
of hats, caps and men's furnishing goods is perhaps the largest and most complete of any stock of the 
kind west of Chicago. They are sole agents in Minneapolis for the well-known Knox hats of New 
York. They aim to supply the wants of every class of men. They do a very large trade in the 
country and small towns about, as well as in the City of Minneapolis itself. They have twice suffered 
severe loss from fire, but have each time fully and easily recovered. 

WEBSTER &- CHURCHILL, Druggists, Under Nicollet House — This house keeps a first- 
class drug store under the Nicollet House, on Washington Avenue South: The firm is composed of 
Mr. H. G. Webster and Mr. G. S. Churchill, both New Hampshire men. The concern is one of the 
oldest in the city, having changed hands several times before it came into possession of the present 
proprietors, who succeeded in t88i the firm of Cable & Judd. Since they have had the running of the 
business it has increased three-fold in volume. A full line of drugs, toikt articles and chemicals is kept, 
the stock being valued at $18,000. They also keep on hand a fine stock of all grades of cigars, and in 
this line they do a large business. The soda water fountain here is very handsome, and the cold drinks 
that are constantly being dispensed would almost float a man-of-war, one would think. Mr. Webster is 
Secretary of the State Board of Pharmacy, which important position he has occupied for more than two 
years, thus witnessing to his popularity and the high esteem in which he is held by his confreres. 

GOODYEAR RUBBER CO., John J. Tallmadge, Manager, 201 iNicollet Avenue, i to 13 
Second Street— This is one of the numerous branch houses of the famous Goodyear Rubber Co., whose 
headquarters is at 487 Broadway, N. Y., and which, as is well known, is one of the largest manufact- 
urers of and dealers in rubber goods in the world. The store here in Minneapolis has been in operation 
since 18S5, and the stock kept on hand at this point is a very large and extensive one, comprising full 
lines of everything properly appertaining to their line of trade. It is ably managed by Mr. John J. 
Tallmadge, to whose energy and efforts much of its success is due, and both a wholesale and retail 
business is transacted, about a dozen men being employed in connection with the establishment. The 
other stores of this great company are located at 362 Broadway and 57 Maiden Lane, New York City, 
and also at Buffalo, N. Y. ; Chicago, 111.; Milwaukee, Wis.; St. Louis, Mo.; San Francisco, Cal. : St. 
Paul, Minn., and Montreal, Canada. 

;r. E. TRUEANT &- CO., Fine Teas and Coftees, No. 120 Fifth Street South— This is an entirely 
wholesale business, and Mr. Trufant himself is the sole representative of it. He always carries a con- 
siderable stock of teas on hand and also a stock of coffees, but as the latter goods are not improved by 
keeping, and as they are roasted in Boston and shipped to him about three times a week, he thus keeps 
constantly on hand a fresh stock. His trade reaches over the whole of the State and parts of Dakota, 
Wisconsin and Iowa. His city and St. Paul trade is very large, indeed, he has a tendency to cultivate 
trade close, to home. Besides his staff at his warehouse, he employs three traveling men, who make 
Minneapolis their headquarters. 

C. A. SMITH &'' CO., Manufacturers and Dealers in Lumber, Lath and Shingles, 302 and 303 
Lumber Exchange — This is a representative firm, which started eleven years ago, at first at Herman, in 
Grant County, and moved to Minneapolis in 1884, where it has since carried on an increasing and 
thriving business. The yards are located at the corner of Eighth Street and Fifth Avenue S. E., 
and at the corner of Plymouth and Lyndale Avenues, and their name is familiarly known throughout 
the whole city. C. A. Smith and John S. Pillsbury compose the firm. The business has increased from 
12,000,000 to 20.000,000 feet annually, and embraces light and heavy lumber, and every product of 
pine timber. A large jobbing as well as retail business is done by this firm, and their reputation and 



102 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

trade is co-extensive with the Hmits of the Northwest lumber trade. Some attention is paid to supplying 
sash and doors, moulding and inside house finishings. Mr. Smith, upon whom devolves the management 
of this business, has shown himself to be a competent, careful business man. He has been a resident 
of this city since 1884. 

NORTHWESTERN COISTSERVATORY OF MUSIC, 608 >4 Nicollet Avenue, Charles H. 
Morse, Director — -This institution was established here in 1885, by Prof. Chas. H. Morse, Mus. Bach. 

Mr. Morse's career has 
been a remarkable one. 
From the age of 15 he 
has held a public position 
as a musician and always 
with credit to himself, 
and much* to the delight 
of those who have been 
within his influence. In 
organ playing his instruc- 
tors were George E. 
Whiting and J. K. Paine. 
In piano, Carlyle Peter- 
silea, J. C. D. Parker, 
Ernst Perabo and Carl 
Baermann, successor to 
Hans Von Bulow as King's 
professor of piano at 
the Royal Music School, 
Munich, pupil of Liszt, 
and one of the finest living 
pianists. In harmony, 
composition, etc., S. A. 
Emery and Paine. Upon 
his graduation in 1876 Mr. 
Morse received from Bos- 
ton University the degree 
of Bachelor of Music. At 
the opening of Wellesley 
College, he was appointed 
its professor of music, 

and planned the entire work of the music department, which had at the outset two teachers and eight 
pianos. In 1884 he resigned his position at Wellesley College, leaving a college of mijsic, thirty-six 
pianos, two pipe organs and a music hall, entirely for musical work, which cost $30,000, and nine teachers 
besides himself. At the Conservatory there have been taught in the four years during which it has been 
organized no less than i,ooo students. The attendance has been from twenty-seven States and Terri- 
tories, including (the N. E. and Middle States) Massachusetts, British Columbia, Manitoba, Missouri, 
Nebraska and New Mexico. Minneapolis is to be congratulated upon having a gentleman of such 
eminence at the head of her musical affairs. 




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G£0. R. NEWELL &C0.., Wholesale Grocers, lor, 103, 105, 107, 109 and iii Third Street North, 
and 300. 302, 304, 306, 308 and 310 First Avenue North — This is one of the largest concerns of its kind 
in the whole Northwest, and, carried on by one of the best known men in the Northwest trade, Geo. R. 
Newell, everything is conducted on a gigantic scale, the stock, the staff of busy helpers, the staff of 
clerks, the traveling salesmen, and the system which can make such a concern work smoothly must be 
admirable. The building in which their business is carried on is a beautiful red brick structure 124 .x 132 
feet and six stories high. The territory covered by them is the whole Northwest. No less than fifteen 
traveling salesmen represent the house through the country, and in their warehouses and office fifty more 
hands are employed. The scene presented at their place of business on any day is only comparable to 
a bee-hive, so busy and full of life is it in every department. Mr. C. Emerson, the manager, is the central 
figure and must needs have a wonderful head for business or he would never be able to stand the strain 
put upon him. He has to distribute, after examination, the hundreds of letters that pour in from all 
parts, and every question of importance must needs be referred to him, so that during the whole time he 
is in his office he is beset by inquiries enough to bewilder any one not possessing the wonderful power of 
of concentration with which he is endowed. 

PATTERSON & DLCKINSON, Manufacturers, Importers and Jobbers of Gloves and Mittens, 
Hats, Caps, Furs and Ladies' Straw Goods, No. 204 Nicollet Avenue and No. 205 Hennepin Avenue — 
This concern was first established in 1883 by Mr. R. H. Patterson and Mr. James Chesnut. In Janu- 
ary, 1886, Mr. Chesnut sold his interest in the concern to Mr. A. C. Dickinson, of Cincinnati, who 
then moved to this city and took an active part in the business. Both members of the firm are 
American born and are active men. There are six traveling salesmen employed in the business 
besides the staff in the warehouses and office. The trade is very large and extends over the whole of 
the Northwest. A full stock of each line of goods is carried by the firm and is valued at from $50,000 
to $75,000, according to the season. The business is steadily increasing, and bids fair to attain to 
mammoth proportions. 

E. A. OLSON, Merchant Tailor, 275 Cedar Avenue — Among the many worthy citizens from the 
Northern countries may be mentioned Mr. E. A. Olson, who came to this city two years ago from 
Red Wing, Minn. During the first few months of his residence, Mr. Olson was employed by Mr. J. H. 
Thompson, the well-known Hennepin Avenue tailor. Mr. Olson first commenced business at 313 
Washington Avenue South. He soon after removed to his present location, where he is enjoying 
success. Mr. Olson is a practical tailor, and employs none but first-class help. He consequently can 
guarantee satisfaction. Low rents enable him to make clothing at moderate prices. Cleaning and 
repairing clothing is a feature of the business. Many of the well-dressed citizens of South Minneapolis 
are living testimonials of the handiwork of this establishment. 

THE SECURITY BANK OF MINNESOTA, Corner Third Street and Hennepin Avenue— 
This great financial institution, with a paid-up capital of $1,000,000, a surplus of $250,000, deposits of 
nearly $5,000,000, and loan and discount credits of $4,000,000, is in truth what its name suggests, not 
alone one of the must secure and reliable banks at Minneapolis, but of the State as well. It is a State 
bank, and was founded in 1878 by T. A. and H. G. Harrison and Joseph Dean, with a capital of $300,- 
000. The Messrs. Harrison were brothers, and came to the West when Minnesota was in its infancy, 
and Mr. Dean is also a pioneer of Minneapolis, he having been a member of the first board of county 
commissioners of Hennepin County from 1856 to 1859, when he was elected County Treasurer. The 
latter was the first manager of the bank, and was for years its vice-president, until succeeded by the 
present incumbent of that position, Henry M. Knox. Mr. Knox is also well known in financial circles 
— in fact, better known than any other man in Minnesota, he having been the public examiner of banks 



104 RESOURCES OP MINNESOTA. 

and officials of the State for the ten years preceding^ 1888. The other officers are H. G. Harrison, 
President, and F. A. Chamberlain, Cashier, the latter being a banker of life-long experience, whose con- 
nection with the bank dates almost from its earjiest days, and the directors are, in addition to the offi- 
cers, J. Shaw, H. M. Carpenter, W. At. Tenney, A. J. Dean and J. H. Thompson. The bank's princi- 
pal correspondents are the Union Bank, London, Eng. ; the Commercial National Bank. Chicago; the 
National Exchange Bank, Boston, and the Bank of New York, New York City. 

MILWAUKEE STORE, Dry Goods and Notions, Mather & Mather, Proprietors — No notice 
of the business houses of South Minneapolis would be complete without a description of the "Milwaukee 
Store." This store was established in September, 1888, by Messrs. I.. W. Mather and Alonzo Mather, 
operating as Mather & Mather. Mr. E. M. Everson is the efficient manager. The members of the 
firm came from Hastings, Minn. The store occupies an area of 44x96; it is equipped with the Lamson 
cash railway. Eleven clerks are employed. The stock is valued at $20,000 and comprises silks, dress 
goods, white goods, hosiery, gloves, all kinds of fancy goods — in short, everything to be found in a first- 
class dry goods store. The store is easily the largest on Cedar Avenue; it is always a busy place and is 
extensively patronized by the residents of South Minneapolis. 

/. B. WHEATLEY, Artistic Gas Fixtures and Table Lamps, Etc., 604 Nicollet Avenue— Mr. 
Wheatley, the proprietor of this establishment, was born in New York, and came here in the year 1886 
when he started his present business. He carries a very fine stock of goods, which is valued at about 
$30,000. There are gas fixtures of every conceivable from, all designed with the most exquisite taste. 
Table lamps, brass plaques, tables, mirrors and ornaments, together with the most beautiful art metal 
work for parlors, etc. The trade extends all over the Northwest and is very extensive. A traveling 
salesman is kept busy taking orders for the house, and there are eleven hands employed. Minneapolis' 
for so young a place, is noted for its artistic taste, and an establishment like Mr. Wheatley's is properly 
appreciated. 

R. J. RICKEY, Dealer in Fine Wall Papers and Interior Decorations, 414 Nicollet Avenue — Mr. 
R. J. Rickey is one of the most successful operators in his line of business in the city. He has only 
been here for a comparatively short period, having come here from Ohio about six years ago, yet in that 
short time he has done wonders, commercially speaking — showing beyond a doubt that he possesses the 
push and energy that are so necessary to secure a good position in the business of this Western country. 
Although his beginnings were comparatively small, he has now achieved such a standing that he carries 
a stock of the value of from $10,000 to $20,000, while his business averages $1,000 per week. He has 
from seventeen to twenty hands constantly employed, most of whom are men of considerable experi- 
ence in the trade, and his work as an interior decorator is, beyond dispute, of the very best quality and 
bound to give satisfaction to his numerous patrons, among whom may be found some of Minneapolis' 
most honored citizens. 

WASHBURN MILL COMPANY, Manufacturers of Lumber and Flour, 42 Washington 
Avenue South — The mills of this company are here and at Anoka. The capital stock of the company 
is $500,000. About three hundred hands are employed. The capacity of the mills is, for flour, 2,400 
barrels daily, and for lumber, 25,000,000 feet annually. The trade for these products extends over the 
whole of the United States. The yiresent corporation are successors to W. D. Washburn & Company, 
and General W. D. Washburn is the President, Major W. D. Hale, Treasurer; and Mr. J- E. Stevens, Jr., 
is Superintendent of the flour department. All these gentlemen were born in Maine. General Wash- 
burn has been prominent not only in milling affairs, but in aftairs connected with the government of the 
State, since he came here in 1857. He served three consecutive terms in Congress. He is largely inter- 
ested in the principal railroads with which this city is identified. He is president and principal stock- 



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holder in the Anoka National Bank. He owns the steamer City of St. Louis; owns a large stock farm 
in this State, where he is engaged in the breeding of finegra;des of cattle. He is largely interested in the 
Standard Coal Company of Iowa, and is connected with many other commercial and social enterprises 
too numerous to mention. He is at the same time always ready to assist any undertaking for the 
benefit of the city. Mr. M. P. Hopkins, his secretary, is prompt in attending to these matters for him. 
Major W. D. Hale, manages the business of the company. He has been a resident of Minneapolis for 
some twenty years and has been connected with General Washburn in business ever since he came 
here. He served in the army for four years. Mr. J. E. Stevens, Jr., attends to all the details of wheat 
purchasing and the manufacture and sale of flour. He has been here for about fifteen years, during 
which time he has been connected with the milling business. 

LACKEY or' LACKEY, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 1500 East Franklin Avenue — Worthy 
of mention among the leading firms of South Minneapolis maybe mentioned the enterprising real estate 
firm of Lackey & Lackey. 
Tlie members of the firm 
are young men who came 
herefrom Wisconsin. Mr. 
W. H. Lackey, the senior 
member of the firm, estab- 
lished the business in 1885, 
but in 1887 the business 
had grown to such propor- 
tions that he associated his 
brother with him. They 
are always busy, Mr. W. 
H. Lackey is a notary pub- 
lic, a position that is of 
great advantage to hmi. 
They have a large list of 
residence and business property for rent, and also a long list of realty for sale, a conspicuous 
feature of their business is selling farm property. This list includes a large number of farms in Iowa, 
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Dakota. They are also agents for the following fire insurance companies : 
"Peoples" of Pittsburg, "Detroit Fire and Marine," "Fireman's" of Newark, "Boatmen's" of Pittsburg, 
"Rockford" of Rockford, 111. Another feature of their business is the negotiation of loans. They are 
thorough believers in the future of South IVIinneapolis, and are prepared at all times to show to people 
seeking desirable homes advantageous property. 

JOHN Lf. WLNGATE &• CO., Dealers in Dry Goods and Clothing, 2^^0-232 Twentieth Avenue 
North, Branches at 1009 Main Street N. E. and W. Superior, Wis. — This firm is composed of John H. 
and Chas. H. Wingate, of Minneapolis, and S. W. Lightbody, of West Superior, Wisconsin. Mr. 
Wingate enjoys the distinction of being the pioneer dry goods merchant of North Minneapolis. He 
first established himself in 1880, at 1229 Washington Avenue North, but removed to his present 
commodious establishment in 1886. Here the ground floor and basement of above numbers are well 
stocked with dry and fancy goods, clothing, hats and caps, and men's furnishing goods. It is the 
largest store of its kind in North Minneapolis, and the presence of such a store is a great convenience 
to the residents of this part of the city. They carry good goods, such as are demanded by buyers in 
that part of the city. The rapid growth of their business led to the establishment of a branch in N. E. 




Westward He 



106 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

Minneapolis in 1885. In January, 1886, the store at West Superior, Wis., was established. In the 
three stores a stock valued at $45,000 is carried, and the annual sales exceed $100,000. Nine clerks, 
besides the proprietors, are required to attend to the wants of the business. For many years he was 
engaged in business in Janesville, Wis., but recognizing the value of Minneapolis as a trade center 
wisely decided to cast his fortunes with the progress of the Flour City. 

C. J. REEVES, Meat Market, Shops, 731 Tenth Street South and 732 Fourteenth Street East — 
This cosy market was opened some years ago, and purchased by the present owner in 1887. Under 
this gentleman's management it has been greatly improved. Mr. Reeves runs a market that is the 
delight of the housewife. Here is to be found a well-selected stock of all kinds of meats, fish, poultry 
and oysters, in their season. He also has fresh eggs, milk and butter, and is now adding a complete 
stock of pickled and canned goods. Mr. Reeves has been in this business all his life, having 
commenced eighteen years ago in Fulton, N. Y., where he ran a market until he went to Michigan- 
From that State he came to Minneapolis in 1883, and until he went into business was 'employed by 
H. A. Gerrist. Mr. Reeves' market is an essentially family one. He personally selects his own stock, 
and being thoroughly familiar with the business, he knows what and how to buy. He makes all the 
sausage used by his trade. Two men and two teams are employed to attend to the wants of the 
patrons. 

UNION PACIFIC TEA CO., Importers, Coffee Roasters, and Dealers in Teas and Coffees, 
421 Cedar Avenue — It would require a volume to describe the magnitude of the business done by this 
firm, it being the largest of the kind in the city. A brief summary may convey some idea of the extent 
of its business. The main houses are located at 79 Water and 80 Front Streets, New York City. 
There are over two hundred branch stores throughout the United States. The motto of the firm, 
"We lead! Let those who can, follow," is an appropriate one. Mr. R. P. McBride, of New York, is 
the proprietor of this vast business. The Minneapolis branch was estabHshed in 1885. Mr. C. L. 
Harrod is the present' manager, having assumed this position in December, '87. The store occupied 
covers an area of 25x80 feet. Three men and one team are given employment. This concern is a 
direct importer, and handling goods in such quantities are enabled to quote the lowest prices. They 
give presents when a customer's purchases have reached a certain figure. Their stock of presents 
embraces china in all styles, glassware in endless variety, castors, knives and forks, hanging lamps, and 
thousands of other articles both useful and ornamental. Since the establishment of the Minneapolis 
branch the business has shown a rapid increase and has extended to the remotest sections of the city. 

STEWART Of JOHNSON, Practical Plumbers and Gas-fitters, 1217 East Franklin Avenue— This 
enterprising plumbing firm of South Minneapolis was established three and a half years ago. Commenc- 
ing in a small way their business has rapidly increased, until now eighteen men and one team are employed. 
Both members of the firm are practical men, and to this fact may be attributed much of their success. 
They carry a full line of plumbers' supplies, and are consequently enabled to fill contracts at short no- 
tice. Their specialty is plumbing and gas-fitting in residences; also, they have virtually a monopoly of 
the plumbing business on the South Side. Their business aggregates upwards of $15,000 per year. Mr. 
Stewart has been a resident of this city for seven years, coming here from Chicago, his native city. Mr. 
Johnson has lived here nine years. He learned his trade in Norway, of which country he is a native. 

O. MOE dv CO., Dealers in Furniture, Wall Paper, Carpets, Pictures, Frames, Window Shades, 
Etc., 133 1 East Franklin Avenue — This popular house was established in 1886 by O. Moe and J. O. 
Braa, operating as O. Moe & Co. From 1880 to 1886 Mr. Moe had charge of the gilding and framing 
department of Wales & Co., of this city. Mr. Moe is a native of Norway, and learned his trade in 
that country. Mr. Braa is also a native of Norway, and, until he entered into business, he also worked 



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for Wales & Co. Both members of the firm are practical men, and this has had much to do with their 
success. Their business has constantly increased, so that now they have the largest and best appointed 
store of the kind on Franklin Avenue. They occupy two floors of a building 22x90 feet. They carry a 
stock of the value of $7,000, and their sales aggregate $20,000 annually. Their stock comprises furni- 
ture, wall paper, carpets, pictures, window shades, etc. Their specialty is making picture frames to 
order. They buy direct from Eastern manufactories, and discount all bills, consequently they can 
quote the lowest prices. During the winter three men are usually employed, which number is increased 
to ten in summer. This increase in summer is largely due to the e.\tensive business that they do m 
paper hanging. 

OLANDER & CO., Dealers in Fancy and Staple Groceries, Crockery, Glassware, Etc., 1201 
East Franklin Avenue— This grocery is a first-class establishment in every respect. It is one of the 
oldest in South Minneapolis. The present proprietors acquired its control in January, 1887. Both 
members are young men, and were fitted for the business while in the employ of other firms. They 
carry a complete stock of flour, canned goods, coffees, teas, spices, bakery products, cigars, etc. Their 
display of vegetables and fruits is especially worthy of attention, and is an attractive feature of their 
store. They employ two clerks and two teams. Their trade is rapidly increasing, and they are now 
doing a business of $2,500 per month. Both members of the firm are natives of Sweden and have 
lived in Minneapolis for some years. 

ROOD &> ERICKSON, Ji[erchant Tailors, and Proprietors of the Castle One Price Clothing 
Store, 412 and 414 Cedar Avenue— These gentlemen came to this city in 1886 and established this 
business in the block just south of their present location. Both gentlemen, before coming here, were 
engaged in business in Wisconsin. The store occupied by them is very commodious, and occupies a 
prominent location on Cedar Avenue. This store is 33x100 feet. The stock is a well-selected one. 
They carry all kinds of clothing for men's and boys' wear. They also have departments devoted to 
hats and gents' furnishing goods. A merchant tailoring establishment is also conducted in connection 
with this establishment. Three men are given employment in this department. In the ready-made 
clothing department three men are employed. Both members of the firm are natives of Norway. Mr. 
Rood has been m this country for fourteen years and Mr. Erickson for twenty years. 

TILBURY & McCUNE, Dealers in all Kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats, Poultry, Game, 
Sausage, Etc., 1209 East Franklin Avenue — One of the long established markets on Franklin Avenue 
is that of Tilbury & McCune. This firm are the successors of C. A. Tilbury, Mr. McCune having pur- 
chased an interest January ist, 1889. Both gentlemen have lived here some years, and are, therefore, 
thoroughly familiar with the wants of the people of South Minneapolis. Their market is neat and well 
arranged, occupying the first, floor and basement. Here are to be found all kinds of meat, fish, canned 
meats, oysters and game in season. All kinds of sausage are made, and the lard used by their trade is 
rendered by them. They call for and deliver all orders promptly. Three men and two teams are 
required to attend to the wants of the business, and their trade is rapidly increasing because of prompt 
and courteous attentioil to the wants of customers. Before coming here, Mr. McCune lived for some 
years in Austin, Minn. He is a native of Ohio. Mr. Tilbury is a native of England, and has been a 
resident of this city for eleven years. 

/. A. HALL, Dealer in Fine Boots and Shoes, 1333 Franklin Avenue— No notice of the business 
houses of Franklin Avenue would be complete without a sketch of the popular boot and shoe store of 
J. A. Hall. This store was established in 1884 by Mr. J. L. Johnson. February isth of this year, Mr. 
J. A. Hall purchased the business. Before coming here, Mr. Hall was engaged in the boot and shoe 
business in Red Wing. He was born in Sweden, where he learned the trade of shoe-making. He came 



108 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

to this country eleven years ago, and immediately located at Red Wing, where for three years he carried 
on a shoe shop. He then opened a boot and shoe store, which he carried on with success until coming 
to this city. He carries a well-selected stock, which is valued at $2,000. This comprises all grades of 
men's, women's and children's foot-wear. The sales will run upwards of $10,000 per year. In addition 
to the shoe store he maintains a shop, where two men are employed. Here orders can be given for 
custom work and foot-wear left for repairs. Mr. Hall buys in St. Paul, Minneapolis and the East. 

SCANDIA FURNITURE STORE, 405 and 407 Cedar Avenue, N. L. Enger, Proprietor- 
Mr. Enger first began business in 1885, at 1805 Riverside Avenue. The development of his business 
necessitating larger quarters, he removed to his elegant new store at 405 and 407 Cedar Avenue May 
1st, 1888. This store is 32 x 75 feet, and in addition to the first floor he occupies two basements. The 
stock, purchased direct from manufacturers, comprises all kinds of furniture, carpels, pictures, etc. It 
is tastily arranged, and all goods are displayed in an attractive manner. Picture frames are also made 
to order, and repairing of furniture is a specialty. Nine months after the establishing 6f the furniture 
business the undertaking branch was started. This is located at 407 Cedar Avenue. The firm name 
of this department is Enger & Ellingsen. The office is open day and night. They are prepared to take 
entire charge of funerals, furnishing hacks, a hearse, etc. Mr. Enger is a native of Norway. He came 
to this country in 1879 and to Minneapolis in 1881. 

TURNQUIST BROS., Merchant Tailors, 26 Sixth Street South— This enterprising firm was 
established in 1878 by John A. and Frank G. Turnquist, trading as Turnquist Bros. Their first 
location was at 623 Washington Avenue South. They removed, in 1888, to their elegant new store at 
26 Sixth Street South. This elegant four-story structure, 44x100 feet, was built by them on their own 
ground at a cost of $25,000. Their business is one of the fixtures of Minneapolis, and they have 
amply displayed their confidence in its future by the construction of this elegant building. This building 
is equipped with all modern conveniences, and their store is especially attractive. They carry a stock 
of $7,500, and give employment to from ten to thirteen hands. Their sales in 1888 aggregated $22,000 
and is steadily increasing. They make all grades of men's clothing, but pay especial attention to good 
clothing at popular prices. These gentlemen were born in Sweden, but have been residents of Minne- 
apolis since 1873. They learned their trade in Sweden. For six years prior to engaging in business 
they worked for different firms in the city. The business success of these gentlemen is an evidence of 
their close attention to customers' wants. 

CRAIG BROS., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Dry Goods, 509 Nicollet Avenue, Syndicate 
Block — Mr. John G. Craig came here in 1882 and established this business. His brother, Mr. Daniel 
Craig, joined him three years later. They were born in Scotland, but have been in this country since 
1870 and 1872, respectively. They carry a stock of general dry goods which is valued at from $35,000 
to $40,000. They employ a staff of ten or twelve hands, and their annual sales amount to the large 
sum of $75, 000. Their store is a very handsome one and is situated in the very best locality in the 
city. Their stock is a very fine one, and as they are both energetic young business men they are bound 
to continue in the enjoyment of the success which has hitherto crowned their business operations. 

SWEDISH-AMERICAN BANK, 28 Washington Avenue South— The large patronage which 
this new bank has received since its organization in June, 1888, is very significant as showing the per- 
fect confidence reposed in its management and officers by the people of Minneapolis. It began 
business with an authorized capital of $500,000, one-fifth of which was paid up, and its affairs as a 
whole and in every department have resulted so satisfactorily as to already indicate a secure and 
prosperous future. Its foreign exchange is a noticeable feature, and in the matter of loans and dis- 
counts it has made rapid progress, as may be seen from the fact that the latter exceeded $300,000 before 



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the close of tlie first year. The officers are O. N. Ostrom, President; C. S. Hulbert, Vice-President, 
and N. O. Werner, Cashier; all of whom are well-known and prominent here and the directorate con- 
tains in addition to the officers the following substantial citizens: John F. Peterson, John Dalquest, 
H. R. Halvorsen, Hans Mattson, C. A. Smith, Ernest Dean, J. W. Anderson, C. M. Amsden, H. 
Eustrom, T. B. Janney, Chas. Larson and C. J. Swanson. 

T. ]V. HANLEW Merchant Tailor, 51 South Fourth Street — This gentleman was born in 
Minneapolis in 1857, in a house which occupied the present site of the Pillsbury A mills. His parents 
were among the old pioneers, having come here from New Yorlc State. . Mr. Hanley is therefore well 
known by the old residents. He started in business in 1880, and was the senior member of the firm of 




Hanley ..'v; Kelley. Since 1883 Mr. Hanley has had no partner. His store is centrally located and 
o|)posite the Tribune building. He does a fine class of custom work. He carries a complete and 
well-selected stock of all grades of suitings. His aim is to keep pace with the latest styles, and to this 
end watches closely th'e Eastern and European styles. All work turned out by his establishment is 
guaranteed both as to fit and workmanship. Ten men are given employment. He is a thorough 
believer in the rights of workingmen, and carries this idea out by employing none but union men in his 
establishment. 

CHAS. D. WHIT ALL, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Books, School Supplies, 125 Nicollet 
Avenue — Unlike the greater portion of the business houses of Minneapolis, this establishment lays 
claim to an antiquity of something like twenty years, its founder having been W. W. Wales. As in the 
past, the enterprise is very conspicuously in the foremost ranks of the trade. The stock handled is one 



110 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

of the largest and most varied in the Northwest, and the sales and increase in the volume of business 
are indicative of must progressive and intelligent management. The employes of the house are 
fifteen in number, and both a wholesale and retail business is done — this being the only concern in Min- 
neapolis carrying on a jobbing trade in books, stationery and school supplies combined. Mr. Whitall, 
the present owner of the business, purchased the stock nine years ago — that numeral also indicating the 
length of his sojourn in Minnesota. He came here direct from New York City, where he was extensively 
engaged in manufacturing operations, and he claims New Jersey as his native State. Since making 
Minneapolis his permanent home he has identified himself firmly with the commercial and mercantile 
interests of the place, and is in every way classed among her most deserving citizens. 

IRISH-AMERICAN BANK, Corner of Hennepin Avenue and Fourth Street, Kasota Block — 
There have been German- American banks, Swedish- American banks, Canadian-American banks and 
banks whose titles connected them with many of the various nationalities represented in this country, 
but it remained for the people of Minneapolis to estabhsh the first Irish-American Bank in the United 
States, and it is a pleasing task to be able to chronicle that tht enterprise has proven successful beyond 
the expectations of its sanguine founders. The bank opened its doors for business last November with 
a capital of $100,000 and charter rights to increase the same to $500,000, when occasion may require. 
Its officers are J. S. Coghlin, President; J. E. Gould, Vice-President, and J. C. Scullen, Cashier, and 
its directors are all old and well-known professional and business men, namely : Martin Ring, M. W. 
Nash, J. S. Coghlin, Matt Walsh, Dennis Trainor, J. R. Corrigan, Wm. McMuUan, Richard Welsh, 
Hon. J. P. Rea, H. C. Clarke and John Goodnow. 

FOLDS, GRIFFITH 6- COL VER, Wholesale and Retail, Carpets, Rugs and Draperies, Syndi- 
cate Block, 505 and 507 Nicollet Avenue — This is one of the largest and highest class carpet and 
drapery establishments. The house was originally established in 1865. Up to the beginning of this 
year the firm consisted of Mr. W. B. Folds and Mr. C. J. Griffith, when Mr. Colver, of New York, 
joined the firm, and it is accordingly Folds, Griffith & Colver. The premises occupied by them in the 
Syndicate Block are very fine; they consist of a double-front store, 50 x 150 feet, besides which there are 
four other floors and a basement all used for the purposes of the business. Their immense stock is 
unequaled for richness and elegance, and is valued at $75,000; it is a sight worth seeing. Since the 
joining of Mr. Colver the business has received a fresh impulse, and his business ability and sound 
judgment, added to the experience and high commercial qualities of the other two partners, are sure to 
push the concern rapidly to the front in the trade. 

LINDMAN 6- McIVOR, 75 Sixth Street South— The estabHshment of Messrs. Lindman & 
Mclvor, 75 Sixth Street South, interior decorators in fresco and dealers in wall papers, is by far the 
largest of its kind west of Chicago. Mr. Mclvor is a native of this country; he came here from New 
York State in the year 1884. Mr. Lindman was born in Sweden, and has been in the firm of Lindman 
& Locke, which was dissolved two years ago. He then joined Mr. Mclvor, and they have since carried 
on business in the premises they now occupy. Their business is decorating, painting and hardwood 
finishing. They also carry an immense stock of wall paper, the largest in the Northwest — especially 
they handle hand-made and imported goods in that line. Fresco painting is their specialty. Among 
the principal works executed by them are the Hennepin Avenue Theatre, the Presbyterian Church, 
Fourteenth Avenue South; the new Congregational Church on Park Avenue, in public buildings; while 
in residences are Mr. B. F. Bull's new residence, corner Ninth Avenue and Seventeenth Street; Mr. 
Wyman Elliott's residence. Ninth Avenue and Fifteenth Street; Mr. Wells' residence, Hennepin Avenue, 
upon which they have executed $5,000 worth of work. Their work in other States includes Mountain 
City Theatre, Pennsylvania, just burnt down; Love's new Opera House, Fremont, Nebraska; Foster 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. Ill 

Opera House, Des Muines, Iowa; Lewis Opera House, Ottumwa, Iowa; Leicester Opera House, New- 
ton, Iowa; State Capitol Building, Des Moines, Iowa, and many others. They procure their goods 
from all the principal American and European factories — in fact, wherever they can obtain anything 
possessing beauty combined with other desirable qualities. The number of hands employed by the firm 
is from sixty-five to seventy-five, and they do a business of from $[oo,ojo to $150,000 per annum. 

SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS OF THE MINNESOTA LOAN AND TRUST CO., 
Nicollet Avenue — This is a department of the Minnesota Loan and Trust Company. Mr. Samuel 
Clark and Mr. Alfred W. Lane are the associate managers of the vauVts. They are very rarely at rest 
during the office hours, 9 a. m. to 6 p. m., owing to the number of applicants for access to their safes. 
The plan of the business is to afford safe keeping to valuables, no matter of what description. The com- 
pany rent small safes at from $5.00 to $50.00 per annum, and the renter is furnished with a key which 
is the only one in e.xistence that can open his safe. The manager has a key which enables the renter 
to use his, the safes having a kind of double lock. A person renting 'one of these small safes can take 
it out, with the assistance of the manager, and retire with it to a small room at the back of the vault, 
where he can lock himself in and examine or deal with its contents at his leisure, and when he has 
finished again replace it in the vault. The outside vault doors are the Diebold Safe Co.'s, and are 
guarded by the Yale time lock. These doors weigh about four and a half tons. They have double 
combinations and are double at each end of the vault. There is also a storage vault for trunks, pack- 
ages and other valuables, for which receipts are given when they are deposited, but the contents of the 
small safes are not known to any one except the renter. The system is about as complete as it is pos- 
sible to make it, and the backing of the Loan and Trust Company renders a deposit here as safe as 
could be desired. 

MINNEAPOLIS DRY GOODS CO., Importers and Dealers in General and Fancy Dry 
Goods, 501 and 503 Nicollet Avenue — This house is one of the Syndicate Trading Company, who 
represent a trade of about $22,000,000 a year. The Minneapolis Dry Goods Company are successors 
to Barnes, Hengerer, Demond & Co., whom they bought out in August, i888. Mr. C. F. Gordon is 
the President and Manager of the company and Mr. J. R. Gordon, Treasurer. They are imjjorters 
and dealers in general and fancy dry goods. The greater part of their trade is retail and largely for 
cash, but they also do quite a wholesale business. Their stock is complete in every line and is valued 
at $250,000. They employ from seventy to seventy-five hands and have two delivery wagons and 
two wagons for hauling in goods. The strongest feature of the concern is their being one of the 
Syndicate Trading Company. The advantages of this combination are large and far beyond the reach 
of any one house. As an instance, it may be mentioned that they have offices in Manchester, England; 
Berlin and Paris, for buying goods, and in New York they have an office for the same purpose, where 
every department of the business is represented. Union is strength. 

/. A. BIXBY &^ CO., Hardware, Stoves and Ranges, 623 and 625 Nicollet Avenue— Mr. J. A. 
Bixby is a native of Vermont and came here in the year 1881, when he commenced business. His 
career has been one o'f the most remarkable successes in the city. In consequence of the very large 
increase in his business he moved this spring into the very fine and commodious premises he now 
occupies. The frontage is 50 feet and the depth 100 feet, and there are three floors and a basement, 
all devoted to the business. The stock carried varies in value from $30,000 to $50,000, and comprises 
all the best kinds of hardware, stoves and furnaces. Besides this there is a tin shop, and large quantities 
of tinware are being turned out. The principal ranges carried are the Highland, Steward heaters and 
ranges, and the Fuller and Warren furnaces. A very fine display of these goods was made at the 
Exposition of 1SS8, and another exhibit at the same time was made by Mr. Bixby of refrigerators. Most 



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of the business is retail, but lliere is some wholesale done. From fifteen to thirty hands are employed in 
the establishment. The annual sales amount to about $200,000 and the business is rapidly increasing. 
CHAS- C. LYFORD, Veterinary Surgeon, 712 Third Avenue South — Dr. Lyford is an expe- 
rienced veterinarian, who has made this profession his special study for years. He was fitted for college 
at the Rockford (Illinois) High School, and graduated from the Illinois State University in 1875. He 

then studied at the famous veterinary college of 
Montreal, Canada, graduating in 1877, after a 
course of two years. For the next two years he 
took a course of practical medicine at the McGill 
Medical College, graduating in 1879. At the same 
time he held the position of demonstrator of ana- 
tomy at the Veterinary College. The summer of 
1S79 he passed in study at the Royal Veterinary 
College in London, after which he studied in 
Edinburg and Paris. He came to this city in 1880, 
and located at 309 Second .\venue South. In 
December, '87, he removed to his present loca- 
tion, where he occupies a stable which was spec- 
ially built for him. This stable is the most com- 
plete of its kind in the city. It covers an area 
40x120, and is two stories in height. Here he 
conducts a regular horse infirmary, presided 
over by competent men. It is heated through- 
out by steam. He also has a completely equipped 
prescription department. Dr. Lyford has accommodations for twenty horses, and receives horses for 
treatment from all over the West. Dr. Lyford holds the positions of consulting veterinarian of the 
Minneapolis Board of Health, State Secretary of 
the American Veterinary Medical Association, 
and State Veterinarian of the Minnesota State 
Dairy Commission. He is also President of the 
Nortliwestern Veterinary College, an institution 
incorporated March 14, 1885. Here all students 
have the benefit of a practical course of instruc- 
tion. The course of instruction extends over 
three winters. Each summer a special session 
is held. The faculty of the college is composed 
of eight members, who deliver lectures on their 
special subjects. In connection with the college 
is a large library, containing works on all sub- 
jects pertaining to veterinary practice. The 
college issues annual catalogues, and the presi- 
dent invites correspondence from men intending 
pursuing the profession of veterinary surgery. 

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stallion is the sire of several 2:30 i)erformers. Mr. Lyford owns Mabel H, 2:26; Bl 
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JOERNS &= COMPANY, Furniture Dealers, 1226 Washington and 223 Plymouth Avenues 
Norih — This progressive firm is composed of Fred. Joerns and C. B. Satterthwaite. They first estab- 
lished their business at 406 Plymouth Avenue, but in July of this year they removed to their present; 
elegant quarters, where they occupy three floors. Before coming to this city, they were engaged in the 
furniture manufacturing business in Chicago. There they acquired a valuable insight in the business 
which has been conducive to their success. They are easily the leading firm in their line in North 
Minneapolis. They carry a stock valued at upwards of $6,000 and do a business of from $2,000 to 
$3,000 per month. Their stock comprises every variety of furniture. _ Undertaking is a recent venture 
of their business, and they bid fair to develop this branch into one of importance. They make a great 
specialty of their time-payment department. This department is a great convenience to many reliable 
citizens, as it enables them to buy furniture, which they pay for on easy installments. Both members of 
the firm are yet young men, Mr. Joerns is a native of Wisconsin. He is a prominent member of the 
Masonic fraternity, and at the present time holds the position of secretary of Plymouth Lodge. This 
is his second term. Mr. Satterthwaite is a native of Pennsylvania, many of his ancestors bore an im- 
portant part in the Revolution. His great, great grandmother designed and made the first American 
flag. 

PLYMOUTH BOOT AND SHOE HOUSE, 303 Plymouth Avenue, A. R. Neustrom, Pro- 
prietor — Danielson & Neustrom established this popular house in 1883. In 1885 Mr. Danielson sold 
his interest to Mr. Neustrom, who has since continued the business. On January ist, 1889, Mr. Neus- 
irom, with Mr. A. E. Talcott, established a store at 217^ Central Avenue, Eastern Division. Mr. 
Neustrom has been very successful, and has done a constantly increasing business. He carries the 
largest and best assorted stock of men's, women's and children's foot-wear, in both rubber and leather 
goods, in North Minneapolis. He is also the special agent for the following makes : Ladies' and gents' 
shoes of Curtis & Wheeler; the gents' shoes of Lilly, Brackett & Co.; the medium grade goods of Wal- 
lace, Elliott & Co., of New York; the medium goods of J. B. Lewis, Boston, and the ladies' shoes of 
George W. Ludlow & Co. and Elderkin, Taylor & Co. In connection with this establishment a repair 
shop is carried on. Mr. Neustrom has been a resident of this city for twelve years, coming here from 
Watertown, Wis. He is a native of Sweden, but came to this country when a mere child. 

NICOLLET A VENUE CREAMERY, 102 1 Nicollet Avenue— This creamery was established 
in February, 1888, by Ferris Bros., who sold it in November of the same year to Mr. E. G. Selsemeyer, 
the present proprietor. Bringing to the business a thorough knowledge of its needs, Mr. Selsemeyer 
has built up a large and increasing trade. The leading feature of his business is the supply of fresh 
milk, which is daily received from Northfield and Faribault, Minn. The sales now average one hundred 
and fifty gallons daily. Two men and two teams are constantly employed in supplying the wants of 
customers. Mr. Selsemeyer also does a very large business in the sale of cream, cheese, butter and 
eggs. He has a special brand of cheese, "The Cottage," which he has lately put upon the market. His 
trade is entirely by retail. Mr. Selsemeyer was born in Fond du Lac, Wis. He came to Minneapolis 
in 1879. LTntil he purchased his present business he worked in diff"erent city dairies. Three years of 
the time he was with the old Minneapolis Milk Association. Mr. Selsemeyer has been in the dairy 
business all his life. 

WEST END CASH MEAT MARKET, Fred. A. Armbruster, Proprietor, 3121 Nicollet 
Avenue — This market was established in October, 1888, and at once took rank with the best markets of 
the city. Its business is conducted on a strictly cash basis, and to this fact is due its success as a low 
priced market. None but the best meats are handled, and it easily maintains the reputation of being 
the leading market in the West End. It is located nearly opposite the Motor Junction depot. Neat- 



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ness and orderly arrangement are conspicuous features. They sell ham and bacon of their own curing 
and pure lard of their own rendering. One of their leading specialties is their fine grade of pressed 
corned beef, in which they have a rapidly increasing trade. The building occupied is 22 x 75 feet and 
they occupy the ground floor and basement. Three men and two teams are given employment. Mr. 
Armbruster has been a resident of Minneapolis since 1885, coming here from St. Paul. He is a 
native of Illinois. Before engaging in this business he was for fourteen years a locomotive engineer. 

Z. A'. LOVEJOY &- CO., Proprietors of the Nicollet Island Roller Mill— The Nicollet Island 
Roller Mill is the manufacturer of the famous "Old Gold" corn meal, which has such a wide-spread 

reputation all over the 

Northwest. The mill is 
also noted as being the 
first here to introduce the 
roller process in grinding 
corn, rye and coarse grains. 
The traffic is quite large, 
both locally and in the ad- 
joining country, and some 
ten hands are employed in 
connection with the enter- 
prise. Only a wholesale 
business is done, and the 
capacity of the mill is con- 
stantly taxed to the utmost 
in supplying the wants of 
the trade. The firm is 
composed of L. K. and S. 
B. Lovejoy, both of whom 
are practical, enterprising 
business men, and devote 
their whole attention to the 
advancement and care of 
their thrifty and growing 
industry. They are true 
Minnesotians in every 
sense of the term, loyal 
adherents to Minneapolis 
interests and her assured 
commercial supremacy and 
future advancement. They 
are among the largest manufacturers and dealers in rye and graham flours and corn meals doing busi- 
ness in this city, and all their productions have a standard and fixed value in the market on account of 
their uniform excellence, which guarantees a prompt and ready sale for all the manufactured goods 
their milling facilities are capable of supplying. 

NEUMAN &■ DETWILER, Livery, Sale and Boarding Stable, 211 and 213 Plymouth Avenue 
— This is the oldest stable in North Minneapolis. It was established upwards of fifteen years ago. The 




CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 115 

stable was run under different management until February, 1889, when Mr. Clem Neuman became the 
proprietor. On May ist, Mr. Detwiler became his partner. This firm has made numerous improve- 
ments, and have enlarged the stable so that it now covers an area 59x100 feet.. They keep twenty 
horses for their livery trade, and also have a complete stock of vehicles. ■ They also have a large 
number of boarders. A very important branch of their business is the sale department, in which they 
are doing an increasing trade. Both members of the firm are practical horsemen. Mr. Detwiler is the 
veteran of the-firm, having been in the horse business twenty-one years. For much of that time he 
owned a large interest in a stable in Washington, Iowa. He has been- in Minneapolis for the past four 
years. Previous to engaging in this business, Mr. Neuman was engaged in logging. He has lived in 
Minnesota all his life. 

CARPENTER-ADAMS COMPANY, Manufacturers of Sash, Doors,, Blinds, Mouldings, and 
Building Paper, Office 210 Lumber Exchange^This firm established itself here in February, 1S83. It 
is an incorporated company, with a paid up capital and surplus of $100,000. Mr. Geo. W. Curtis is 
President, Mr. S. J. Carpenter, Vice-President; Mr. E. L. Carpenter, Secretary, Treasurer and Manager. 
They are connected with Curtis Bros. & Co., of Wausau, Wis., and Clinton, Iowa, running factories at 
both those places, that at the former having a daily capacity of 1,500 doors and 700 windows, and at the 
latter 600 doors and 1,000 windows. Their business at inception amounted to about $75,000 and has 
grown to $500,000 annually. They make a specialty of southern yellow pine from Mississippi, which 
makes the harder, clearer and cheaper flooring. They give employment in Minneapolis to about thirty 
men. Their lumber yard is at Harrison Street and Broadway S. E., and warehouse at Fifth Street and 
Eighteenth Avenue S. E. Their business is exclusively wholesale, extending over Minnesota, Dakota, 
Montana, Washington Territory, Wyoming and Illinois, in the hands of three traveling salesmen. Mr. 
Carpenter is a resident of Minneapolis since 1887. 

OYS BROS., Dealers in Fresh and Cured Meat, Ham, Bacon, Poultry, Game, Etc., r5o3 
Hennepin Avenue — Mr. John Oys established this market in 1886. Six months later he admitted his 
brother, Mr. August Oys, to the business. The success of their business has been marked. Both 
members are practical meat men and have been engaged in it nearly all their lives. They learned their 
trade in Germany. In 1881 they came to this country, and in 1882 they located in Minneapolis. 
Their business is increasing rapidly. They cater entirely to family trade. They deal in fresh and cured 
meats, poultry, fish, game, etc. Two men and one team are required in the business. They call for 
and deliver any orders desired. This firm is deserving of success, being composed of live and energetic 
men, who thoroughly understand the wants of their customers. 

NORTHWESTERN NATIONAL ^^iVA'.— Beginning business in 1872, with a capital of 
$200,000, this bank presents a record of progressive growth and solid and material advancement seldom 
met with and rarely surpassed by any similar institution in the country. In 1880 the capital was 
increased to $500,000, and two years later the latter amount had to be again doubled in order to keep 
abreast of the demands made on its resources. Its officers are S. A. Harris, President; T. B. Casey, 
Vice-President, and James B. Forgan, Cashier, and the Directors are composed of the cream of the 
Flour City's business and professional men and capitalists, namely : H. T. Welles, Winthrop Young, 
Woodbury Fisk, ^Vm. H. Dunwoody, Thos. Lowry, S. A. Harris, T. B. Casey, Wm. S. Culbertson, 
Geo. A. PiUsbury, C. H. Prior, O. C. Merriman, Anthony Kelly, W. H. Hinkle, M. B. Koon, W. 
H. Vanderburgh, Jas. B. Forgan. 

DR. N. R. HURD, Dentist, 422 Nicollet Avenue — Dr. Hurd is a gentleman whose position 
to-day is the outcome of a long and varied practice. He studied dentistry under Dr. Carlton, in New 
Hampshire, and was also a pupil of Dr. Robinson, at Great Falls. He practiced in Wisconsin in 



116 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

1862-3-4; two years in Northfield, three in Hastings, and twelve in P'aribault, in this State. He came 
here in 1883, and has been practicing in the city since that time. His long experience in the profession 
has ripened his knowledge in an eminent degree. He is one who is not satisfied with a little superficial 
information gained years ago, but he has kept pace with the times in all the scientific discoveries that 
have been made since he commenced his career, and may now be said to occupy a foremost rank in 
his profession. He has a very good practice, which is principally kept up by those who have known 
him the longest, and the scenes of his early labors still contribute to swell the bulk of thai practice. It 
is an old saying that a rolling stone gathers no moss, but in Dr. Hurd's case the principle does not 
apply, for, although he has traveled a good deal, each move has resulted in his carrying away a good 
deal of the practice, and always the good will which he had secured. He is in this respect more like a 
snowball which increases in substance as it travels onward. 

J?£D WING-SHEBOYGAN LIME CO., Manufacturers of Red Wing Brown Lime, Office 
205 First Avenue South — This is a recent but none the less important venture in this city. Mr. Linne, 
who was born in Sweden and is now the president of the under- 
taking, has been manufacturing lime in Red Wing in this State, 
since 1881. This spring (1889), he consolidated with Mr. 
Braesch, and the company was duly incorporated under its 
present title. Besides the Red Wing brown lime, of which they 
are manufacturers, they are sole agents for Sheboygan white 
lime, Pittsburg lims, Pittsburg mortar colors, and are special 
agents for Louisville, Milwaukee and Portland cements; New 
York, Michigan a'nd Iowa plaster, hair, fire clay and brick, 
sewer pipe, common and pressed brick, etc. Their yards are 
situated at 1125 Fourth Street South and 1501 First Street 
North. They always have on hand a large stock of lime and 
cements. Both the gentlemen connected with this concern are practical men of long experience in the 
business, and as the goods in which they deal are in universal request they are bound, beyond a shadow 
of doubt, to make the concern a grand success. 

E. REESLUND, Merchant Tailor, 709 Hennepin Avenue — This gentleman has been in the 
tailoring business for twenty-six years, many of which were devoted to the business in Sweden. In 1887 
he followed the example of the many thousands of his countrymen and came to America. He came 
direct to Minneapolis. In the fall of 1888 he established himself in the tailoring business. He has 
been very successful in his venture. His trade is increasing rapidly, and he contemplates an early 
addition to his force. His stock of suitings in woolens, cassimeres, etc., is very complete, and shows a 
marked good taste. He also does all kinds of repairing and cleaning of clothing. His location is very 
central and only a short distance from the Holmes and West hotels. 

CASCADE STEAM LAUNDRY, 316 Second Avenue South— Mr. J. R. Purchase, the pro- 
prietor of this laundry, was born in Flushing, Long Island. He has been in this city about sixteen 
years. His laundry is not excelled this side of Chicago. The premises, which are the property 
of Mr. Purchase, are in a handsome, four-story pressed brick and stone building, 26x120 feet, 
with a basement. Four floors are occupied for laundry purposes. In addition to this large building 
Mr. Purchase has branches of his laundry at the four points of the compass, namely, on the East Side, 
i2o>4 Central Avenue; West End, corner Twenty-sixth Street and Nicollet Avenue; North Side, 1305 
North Washington Avenue; South Side, 1526 Franklin Avenue. Each of these branches has the 
exclusive handling of the business for their respective portions of the city. Everything is done to make 







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the work turned out by them sustain the very high reputation which the Cascade Laundry has secured. 
About one hundred hands are employed, and the amount of work turned out by the concern is simply 
prodigious. A great deal of this is shii)ped by mail and express to towns in this State, Dakota, Wisconsin, 
Iowa, Montana and some places in Idaho. In fact, there is more business outside of the State than 
inside, barring Minneapolis. The annual business amounts to about $70,000. Mr. Purchase is still 
in the prime of vigorous manhood, and is an exemplary man of business. No better proof of this 
could be adduced than the business which he has built up and still carries on so successfully. 

£>J?. SUTHERLAND, Dentist, 427 and 429 Nicollet Avenue-^Dr. Sutherland studied dentistry 
at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He came here about three years ago, but prior to that he 
had been practicing at Duluth for about two years. He makes a specialty of gold, crown and bridge 
work or teeth without plates, and uses the painless method of extracting teeth by the administration of 
nitrous oxide. His practice is very large and continues to increase, so that he and his two assistants 
have all they can do in meeting the demands upon them. Dr. Sutherland keeps himself well posted in 
all the new discoveries and improvements that have been and are being made in dentistry. 

CARLSON BROTHERS, Livery, Sale and Boarding Stable, 102 First Street North— This 
firm was established in 1881, and is now operating as Carlson Bros. They do a large sale busi- 
ness, and buy, sell and exchange horses, carriages, buggies and harness. They keep in their 
business twenty-five to thirty horses, and also have accommodations for some boarders. This 
stable is commodious, and is 27^2 x 160 feet, and three stories. They are also proprietors of the 
N. W. Scavenger Co., which was established with their stable. This is the largest concern of 
the kind in the city. They do the most of the city scavenger work. They take contracts for 
any kind of excavating, and their long experience, combined- with heavy teams and competent 
men, enable them to do their work promptly and to satisfaction. In cleaning vaults and cess- 
pools they use Dewey Bros.' odorless tanks. They also have teams to do any kind of heavy hauling. 
These gentlemen have been located in the city for many years, and have built up a large and 
increasing business. 

JONES BROTHERS, Granite and Marble Monuments, 325' First Avenue South— The members 
of this firm are Mr. B. P. and Mr. A. P. Jones. The Jones Brothers came here about ten years ago, 
and it was then that they first established their business. It was, of course, very much smaller at the 
start, but the Jones Brothers are men of business, and they quickly made their energy and ability felt. 
They have now a large business extending all over the Northwest, and which is still increasing. It 
amounts already to something over $30,000 annually. A fine line of marble and granite monuments 
are to be seen in the warerooms of the firm. They generally have about $5,000 worth of stock on 
hand. Among others the following fine memorials have been designed and superintended by Mr. 
B. P. Jones: Masonic, Geo. W. Hale, Dr. Springgate, J. H. Giddings. Lauderdale, Woodbury Fisk, 
Nimocks, E. B. Ames, sarcophagus; S. J. H. Camp, set at Sl Paul; B. S. Bull, cottage style; The Dud- 
ley sarcophagus; Dr. Wright, of Oshkosh, sarcophagus, and many later works. 

WOODBURN FARM FENCE CO., Manufacturers of Combination Wood and Steel Fence, 
Office 323 Hennepin Avenue — This company was incorporated in 1886. H. L. Woodburn is the 
President, and F. R. Hubacheck Secretary and Treasurer. They are both Americans, and have been 
in Minneapolis for some years. They manufacture every kind of fence, but make a specialty of the 
Woodburn Farm Fence, a neat combination of wood and steel wire-work. It is cheap, light, and very 
neat in appearance, and is most effective in turning all kinds of stock, hogs, sheep, poultry, etc. In 
fact, it is the cheapest and most practical fence made. It is manufactured by steam power machines. 
The works are at No. 415 Sixth Avenue South. There are about fifteen hands employed in the manu- 



118 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

facture. The plant is worth over ten thousand dollars and is very fine, and, of course, well suited to the 
work done. Some 6f the Woodburn Farm Fence was in use at the Exposition last year and attracted a 
good deal of attention. The trade of the company extends all over the Northwest, and has already 
reached to something over $25,000 annually, with a decided upward tendency. 

RYAN &> CO., Livery Stable, 20 Second Street North, E. D. — This stable enjoys the distinction 
of being the oldest established stable on the East Side, hiving been built in 1875. Mr. John Ryan 
became the proprietor in 1887, and in September, 1888, Mr. T. A. Bowen purchased a half interest. 
This stable is very commodious, is built of brick, is 44 x 100 feet, and is two stories in height, with 
basement. The demands of the business require thirty horses. A large number of horses are also 
boarded. The stock of carriages is well selected and includes hacks, phaetons and coupes. They also 
have a line of elegant hearses. Six men are given employment. At the corner of Adams and Spring 
Streets N. E. they run a branch stable, which is two stories high and 30x60. Here fhree men are 
employed. This stable is well equipped. The present proprietors purchased the stable in 1888. Mr. 
Ryan is a native of Indiana, and has been a resident since 188 1. Mr. Bowen was born in Minneapolis. 

SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, Syndicate Block, Madame Courdate, Proprietor— This is one 
of the most useful institutions in the city. In a population so mixed as that of Minneapolis the need 
of a school of languages has been long felt; and Madame Courdate has come here with a method of 
teaching and facilities for acquiring modern foreign langages which will go far to supply what has hitherto 
been lacking in this respect. Madame Courdate teaches orally, according to Dr. James H. Worman's 
Chautauqua method. What has been called the natural way of teaching foreign languages is defective 
in that the matter of grammar is generally omitted. Dr. Worman's system keeps this defect in view, 
and may be called the natural way of teaching with the study of grammar superadded. Madame Cour- 
date teaches both in classes and privately, either at her schools or at the pupils' own home, if preferred. 
The languages taught are French, German and Italian. Madame Courdate undertakes the French 
herself, and native German and Italian professors give instruction in those two languages respectively. 
Persons are thus enabled to acquire a knowledge of these three languages in the shortest possible time, 
and the terms are reasonable. 

GEORGE ERENET, Dealer in Choice Groceries and Provisions, corner Plymouth and 
Sixth Street North — This is one of the most attractive grocery stores in North Minneapolis. Mr- 
Frenet established the business three years ago. His stock is attractive, well arranged and first-class in 
every respect. It consists of staple and fancy family groceries, coftees, teas, spices, canned goods, 
provisions, and fruit in season. His trade is increasing rapidly. Mr. Frenet came to Minneapolis in 
1864, from Michigan. He is a native of Canada. After his arrival here he was employed for eleven 
years by the Joseph Dean Lumber Company. He then served eight years on the police force of this 
city. Mr. Frenet also owns considerable inside real estate, which has enhanced greatly in value. 

C, MARCHESSAULT, Machinist, Trip Hamm2r and Machine Forgings. Shop: Nicollet 
Island Power Building — With a practical experience of thirty years as a machinist, Mr. Marchessault 
possesses many advantages in this special line of craft which entitle him to distinctive notice in a 
review of the character of this publication. Born in New York he early became a resident of the 
neighboring State of Vermont, where he acquired his technical mechanical skill, and was soon promoted 
to the position of foreman in the machinest department of the most extensive railroad shops in that 
State, serving in the latter capacity until he came to Minneapolis nine years ago, to engage in business 
for himself. He began operations here on a somewhat limited scale, requiring at first little assistance 
besides his own labor to perform such work as he could procure, but he has succeeded so well in develop- 



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ing the business that he now employs a dozen or more men to handle his contraets. All kinds of heavy 
forging and fancy and ornamental wrought iron work is done, somewhat of a specialty being made of 
architectural and building designs and finishings, in which lines a vast amount of first-class custom is 
controlled. His machine shop, in the Power Building on Nicollet Island, is one of the best equipped in 
the city, being supplied with every convenience and facility necessary to the prompt and efficient 
dispatch of even the most intricate and difficult work. 

H. O. PETERSON, Dealer in Carpets, Dry Goods, Clothing, _ Upholstering Goods, Etc., 1225, 
1227 and 1229 Washington Avenue South — Mr. Peterson established this business in July, 1882, at 1229 
Washington Avenue South. His business so increased that in 1884 he took in 1227, and one year later 
1225, so that he now occupies the basement and three 
floors of above numbers. He now carries a stock of 
$60,000, and requires the services of twenty-two clerks 
constantly, with an increased force at certain seasons 
of the year. His sales aggregated in 1888 $100,000, 
but will probably exceed $125,000 for 1889. Mr. 
Peterson's store is arranged into different depart- 
ments. In 1225 he carries his stock of gents' fur- 
nishing goods, hats and caps; in 1227 his ladies' 
furnishings, hosiery, gloves, underwear, fancy goods, 
etc., and in 1229 the stock of dress goods, notions, 
etc. In the basement are carried the stocks of car- 
pets and upholstered goods, table linens and do- 
mestics. Mr. Peterson is a liberal advertiser and as 
a result he enjoys a very large mail order business. 
He also does some wholesaleing, but his main atten- 
tion, is devoted to the retail portion of his business. 
Mr. Peterson is a native of Norway and came to this 
country in 1869. He first worked in a sash and door 
factory, then was engaged in the grocery business. 
Mr. Peterson is a prominent member of several of the 
best secret orders. He is now filling his third term as 
Grand Master of the Exchequer in the Knights of 
Pythias. He is a colonel of the first regiment of the 
A. O. U. W. ; captain of the Uniformed Rank in 
Knights of Pythias, and has taken the thirty-second degree in the Order of Free Masons. Mr. Peter- 
son's record is a most creditable one and he is one of the most prominent of his race in the city. 

ALEX. J. FOURNIER, Artist; Studio, Tribune Building— Mr. Fournier is the son of an old 
settler of St. Paul, where he was born. He came here in 1881 from Milwaukee, where he had been 
sojourning for some years. A few years ago he went to Chicago to study a particular branch of his art, 
and, with the exception of that time, has been here continuously ever since he first arrived. He is a 
young artist of far greater talent than the usual run of his contemporaries. Some of his landscapes are 
works of exceptional merit, as are also his still-life studies. He had a fine collection of local scenes at 
the Exposition last year and one equally as fine this year. In his studio at the present time there are 
some studies from river scenes in the neighborhood, and other scenes of country life that would be 
ornaments in any art gallery. Mr. Fournier is not without his admirers and patrons in this city 




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and St. Paul. Among them may be mentioned Mr. J. J. Hill, who has one of his pictures of St. 
Anthony Falls, the family of Mr. Welch, Mr. Conklin, Mr. J. S. Pillsbury and Mr. E. A. Campbell; 
but we cannot but think that his talents merit a warmer appreciation than would seem to be accorded 
them by the people at large. That he would receive that warmer appreciation in an older part of 
the country is certain, if his inclination should take him from Minneapolis. 

M G. NELSON, Merchant Tailor, 30 Fifth Street South— This gentleman estabhshed himself 
in business in February, 1889. Mr. Nelson is a practical tailor, having been in the business all his life. 
He possesses a wide acquaintance in Minneapolis, having been here since 1871. He is a native of 
Sweden, and came to this country in 1869. Mr. Nelson gives employment to ten men. He occupies 
a store 16x60 feet. His stock is well selected, and his long experience in the tailoring business in this 
city, familiarizing him with the tastes of Minneapolis men, has enabled him to select a stock calculated 
to please the most fastidious dresser. He does a general line of custom work. His trade, since he 
started, has been good, and is exceeding his expectations. He personally superintends the making of 
every suit turned out by his establishment 

FULTON MARKET, James Chant, Proprietor, 713 Third Avenue South— This market was 
established by Mr. L. R. Gorham at 500 Fourth Avenue South, in 1879. Mr. Chant purchased it in 
1885. Two years later he removed to his present location and the wisdom of this removal has been 
proven by a greatly increased trade. He has been in the meat business since 1879, when he first came 
to Minneapolis. His business caters principally to the family trade. It gives employment to five men 
and three teams. Catering to a first-class trade entirely, Mr. Chant handles none but first-class meats. 
His stock is complete in every respect. Mr. Chant is a native of England. He came to Clay County, 
Minn., in 1873, and was engaged in farming for six years. During a portion of the time, he held the 
position of overseer of one of the Minnesota granges. Before coming to this country, Mr. Chant followed 
the sea for nineteen years, entering the service when a boy as an apprentice. He was successively 
promoted to positions of able seaman, second-mate, chief-mate, until in 1864, he became master of the 
bark Cora Linn. He held this position for seven years, when he left it to take position of captain of a 
steamer. He was engaged principally in the India-China trade, although he went on voyages to nearly 
every quarter of the world. Mr. Chant takes great pride in the recommendations received from his 
employers during a long and honorable service. 

ADAM ROESEL, Manufacturer of and Dealer in Fine and Heavy Harness, Horse Furnishing 
Goods, Saddles, Collars, Etc., 121 1 Washington Avenue North — Mr. Roesel became the proprietor of 
this business in April of this year, purchasing it from Adolph G. Schleiner, who established it in 1882. 
Before engaging in business for himself Mr. Roesel worked at the trade of harness making in this shop, 
and also for Louis Laramee. Mr. Roesel carries a large and well selected stock of whips, blankets, 
harnesses and saddles, in short, everything necessary to a well-stocked harness shop can be found here. 
He also manufactures all kinds of harnesses, but makes a specialty of the finer grade of harnesses. His 
location is the best of any house of the kind in North Minneapolis. Mr. Roesel is a native of Ger- 
many, but has been a resident of this State since 1870. 

MLNNEAPOLIS OMNIBUS TRANSFER LIAE, S. B. Mattison, Proprietor, 13 Nicollet 
House Block and 619 Second Avenue North — A business that is a striking evidence of the progress of 
Minneapolis, is that afforded by the Minneapolis Omnibus Transfer Line. In 1870, when Mr. Mattison 
became proprietor, the business required but eight horses; now fifty or more are required. At that 
time there was no free suspension bridge, and his buses went to St. Anthony Junction to meet trains. 
The business was started by Mr. Mattison's brother during the war. Trips were then made to Fort 



ipally at Boston, Mass., 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 121 

Snelling to connect with the river steamers. At 617 and 619 Second Avenue North he has a large 
stable, 60x110 feet, and three stories high. His business gives employment to twenty-five men. His 
stock of vehicles includes omnibuses, hacks, band-wagons, coupes, phaetons, hansom cabs, etc. Mr. 
Mattison is also the proprietor of the Minneapolis Cab Line. Mr. J. A. Mattison is the superintendent. 
These cabs are all furnished with careful drivers and can be called at any hour, day or night. Mr. 
Mattison has omnibuses and hacks at all trains. His agents board all trains and sell conveyance 
tickets and check baggage to any part of the city. His drivers call every hour at all the principal 
hotels to drive guests to trains. This gentleman was born in Vermont and has been a resident of 
Minneapolis since 1870. 

M^. H. HARRIS, Livery, Boarding and Sale Stables, 314, 316 and 318 Third Street South— This 
gentleman has been in the livery and sale business in this city for six years. He has had twenty-five 
years of experience among horses, and in various parts of the country, p 
and Lewiston, Me. Seven months ago he opened 
his large, well-ventilated stables at 314, 316 and 
318 Third Street South. Mr. Harris is a man 
who evidently knows his business, and his stables 
are probably among the finest west of Chicago. 
They cover one-quarter of an acre of ground and 
are as cltan as a New England parlor. The ven- 
tilation is perfect, and the many smells which 
usually hover around a stable are almost totally 
banished. In case of fire, the arrangements are 
such that the horses could be quickly taken out 
through a number of exits on all sides of the 
building. Connected with the stable, but entirely 
secluded from it, is an elegantly furnished ladies' 
waiting room, so arranged that ladies may enter 
and leave it without coming in contact with the 
rest of the stable, and communicating with the 
proprietor's office by means of an electric bell. 
Mr. Harris has at present forty boarders, and in stock for sale a \ aiict\ uf liuiscs fur tcami, for lainily, 
carriage or buggy use, for riding, etc. He handles these horses himself, trusting no other hands with 
such important work. Any one visiting these stables will be struck by the general air of comfort and 
cleanliness prevailing, and nowhere can the buyer find a better lot from which to make a choice. 

MA YHEW BROTHERS, Wall Papers and Decorations, 129 Sixth Street South, corner Second 
Avenue — This concern was originally started by Mr. George S. Mayhew and Joseph Mayhew, in 1883, 
who were afterwards joined by their brother, Mr. David Mayhew. Mr. George Mayhew subsequently 
retired from the firm, but still retains the management of the business. They use the whole of the 
ground floor and basement of the premises for salesrooms and storerooms for their stock of wall paper, 
the largest in the city, and valued at from $15,000 to $20,000. The business was formerly retail only, 
but they have lately added a wholesale department to the concern. Their trade is not by any means 
confined to the city, as they fill orders all over the country as far as Washington Territory. They have 
had very large experience in interior decoration, so that they are able to tell at once what effects may 
be produced to harmonize with any given surroundings, and those who wish to beautify their homes will 
do well to consult their taste in this respect. As they have always on hand the materials that would be 




123 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

required for decoration under any conceivable circumstances, they are able to show in a few moments 
the combinations most suitable for each case, and thus save their patrons from possible disappointment 
and trouble. They employ about forty experienced men. A specialty of this house is the furnishing 
of samples as well as complete combinations of walls, ceilings, and decorations to parties at a distance, 
who are not able to find as large an assortment of goods and colorings with their local dealers as they 
wish, thus giving them as good selections as they could have if they were in the city. 

C. H. BLICHFELDT, Wholesale and Retail Grocer, 415 Cedar Avenue— Mr. Blichfeldt may 
very properly be said to have spent his lifetime in the grocery business, having been engaged in that 
occupation the past twenty-three years. The field of his operations have been Green Bay and other 
points in Wisconsin, from which State he came to this city in April, 1885, and at once established him- 
self in his present location. His stock of groceries is the finest kept by any dealer on Cedar Avenue, 
and he does both a wholesale and retail business, the latter, however, being the principal trade. The 
class of retail custom controlled by this dealer is a very large and steadily increasing one, and the 
volume of his sales shows a gross business of several thousand dollars each month. Personally, Mr. 
Blichfeldt is a man of good business ability and tact. He is a native of Norway, but came to this 
country early in life, and is yet a man under middle age. 

H. WESTIN, Merchant Tailor, 619 Nicollet Avenue — Mr. Westin was cutter for Rothschild's 
for a period of thirteen years, and has not long been in business for himself. He finds his business 
progressing favorably, and in fact all he could desire. He has a fine, clean stock of imported and 
domestic goods, from which any one should be able to select what they want for wear, whether coat, 
vest or pantaloons. He employs none but the very best workmen, and as he has had such a long and 
so important an experience as a cutter, and now does all his own cutting, he is able confidently to 
guarantee first-class work in every respect. Mr. Westin has had some insight into the rise in value of 
real estate. Though- born in Sweden he has been in America for twenty-one years, and in Minneapolis 
for seventeen. In 1872 he could have bought lots on Nicollet Avenue for $1,500, for which two thou- 
sand dollars a foot is now refused. He has seen men who were then working for low daily wages rise 
up to be worth their hundreds of thousands. 

EBEL 6- Zrd76'6'^i?, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Hardware, Stoves and Tinware, 1301 
Washington Avenue North — This is the largest hardware establishment in North Minneapolis, as well as 
one of the oldest. Messrs. Ebel & Husser purchased the business. Mr. Ebel was previously a con- 
tractor in plastering. Mr. Husser came here from Big Stone City, Dakota, where he conducted a large 
general merchandise store. The location of this store is very prominent, being located on the corner 
of the two leading streets of North Minneapolis. Their store is a substantial brick and occupies an 
area of 30x75 feet. In the rear is the shop, size 20x30. Here all the repairing and manufacture of 
tin and iron work is done. A stock of upwards of $10,000 is carried. This embraces stoves, tinware, 
shelf-ware, shovels, spades, carpenters' tools, paints and oils. The firm are also the special agents for 
h ,' f I n ) I i P I -i ; ri 1 ; ; ;. They also handle the Garland stove ranges. A force of competent clerks is 
employed, and two teams are required to deliver goods. Mr. Ebel is a native of Pennsylvania, and 
has lived in Minnesota for twenty-five years. Mr. Husser was born in Germany, but came to this 
country in 1855. 

HENNEPIN AVENUE MEAT MARKET, E. V. Koessel, Proprietor, 413 Hennepin 
Avenue — A feast for the eye is a visit to this popular market. Here is to be found tastely arranged 
every variety of meat, poultry, fish, oysters, etc. Mr. Koessel thoroughly understands the business, and 
when he became proprietor of this market, December 20, 1888, he brought to the business a long record of 
success in other markets. For twelve years he was foreman of the "Our Brand" market — an evidence of 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 123 

his capability. He has built up a very large family trade, which is rapidly increasing.' He also has a large 
trade among the best hotels and restaurants. Having been a resident of Minneapolis since 1874, he has 
a very wide acquaintance in the city. His references in business are his customers. Five men and 
four teams are now required to take care of wants of customers. He contemplates larger quarters soon, 
and is now putting in a complete equipment for the manufacture of all kinds of sausage. All smoked 
meats used by his trade are cured in his establishment. Mr. Koessel was born in Germany. He served 
with gallantry in the cavalry of the Eleventh Army Corps, during the entire Franco-German war. He 
was twice wounded. Soon after the termination of the war he came to Minneapolis, where he married. 
He is also a prominent member of the I. O. O. F., and is at present holding the position of Deputy Grand 
Patriarch for District Number Five, Schiller Encampment. 

OLE ANDERSON, Groceries, 1801 Second Street North— This gentleman established this 
business March S, 1889. He occupies a substantial two-story brick building, 22x66. This building he 
owns and it was built expressly for his business. Mr. Anderson has received much encouragement in 
his enterprise, and his efforts are being rewarded by rapidly increasing trade. He carries a complete 
stock of groceries, provisions, flour, crockery, fruits and vegetables. He also has a fine stock of 
canned goods, coffees and spices. Mr. Anderson has been a resident of tliis city since June 20, 1869, 
coming here direct from Norway. Previous to entering into the grocery business he was on the police 
force. Mr. Anderson is justly proud of his record while on the force. 

WM. HOCHSTyETTER iSn CO., Upholstery and Furniture, Steam Feather Renovator, 620 
Nicollet Avenue— This standard house has a good business in this line, which they are steadily pushing 
to something above the ordinary run of such concerns. Mr. HochstKtter is a native of Germany, but 
has been here since 1871, and may therefore be classed among the pioneers of the place. He 
commenced his present business in 1875, a^d h-is now always on hand a nice, neat stock of furniture, 
well selected and purchased at the right price. This business occupies the space of two entire floors, 
where it is conveniently arranged for inspection. His trade has already reached the sum of $20,000 
annually, and, as has been stated above, is steadily increasing. Another industry connected with this 
estabhshment is a steam feather renovator, which turns out some excellent work and is much in request. 
Mr. Hochstffitter also possesses exceptionally good facilities for repairing and packing furniture. 

E. H. BASS, Real Estate and Rentals, 323 Hennepin Avenue — Mr. Bass was born at Shakopee, 
his birth being remarkable, as he was the first white child who made its appearance there. He conducts 
a general real estate business. A great deal of the property which he handles is his own, but besides 
this he has a very extensive commission business, his list including some of the best residence property 
in the place. He is principally interested in Eighth Ward property, and makes a specialty of modern 
residences. He also conducts a collecting agency, collecting rents, taxes, etc., and taking care of 
property for non-residents and parties who do not wish for any reason to look after their own. In 
addition to this he does some loaning, principally for Eastern parties. He has control over property 
to the value of $130,000, the greater part of which belongs to himself. He has now been here about 
seven years, and has met with the success to which his energy and business ability entitle him. Corre- 
spondence solicited and references furnished. 

W. C. LEBER, Dealer in Watches, Clocks and Jewelry— Mr. W. C. Leber, of No. 208 Hennepin 
Avenue, jeweler, is one of the most remarkable instances of the success which attends those who have 
the ability and courage to persevere through bad times and good times to make their fortunes. He 
came here in 1875 from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and commenced business on Nicollet Avenue. About 
seven years ago he purchased the building. No. 208 Hennepin Avenue, where he now conducts his 
business. He is not ashamed to say that he commenced without any money; and is it not an honor to 



124 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

any man to be able to say, I have achieved something by careful attention to business, personal super- 
vision and good work? If it be so, surely Mr. Leber deserves credit for what he has achieved. In 
addition to the fine building on Hennepin Avenue he is the owner of a beautifiul residence and a farm 
of three hundred and ten acres near the city, well stocked and largely improved, for which he could get 
at least $125 per acre. For his residence he has already been offered $10,000; add to this his stock of 
jewelry, valued at $11,000, and there is a sum total of nearly sixty thousand dollars, all made in business 
since he has been here. This is without reckoning his large business, which, of course, is very valuable. 
He is the only jeweler in the city who constantly employs three watchmakers to repair watches and 
clocks. He has besides these two other assistants. Besides dealing in jewelry he is a manufacturer of 
jewelry of all kinds, and is agent for Rockford watches. 

STANDARD STEAM LA UNDR V, Office and Laundry 104 and 106 Third Street North.— Mr. 
A. J. Humphrey is the proprietor of this laundry. He established the business in 1879. Mr. Humphrey 

waslioin in Ohio, lint has been in Minneapolis for seventeen years. He is one of the wise men who 

believe in the 
importance of 
looking after 
their business 
themselves and 
he accordingly 
takes an active 
part in the oper- 
ations going on 
in his laundry. 
All the work is 
done by steam 
jiQwer, and bet- 
iir and more 
11 11 1 f o r m and 
cheaper than by 
hand ; and he 
would give ma- 
chinery the pre- 
ference for this 

reason, if there were no other, but he recognizes the impossibility of turning out anything like the same 
amount of work by hand at a given cost as could be accomplished by steam, and therein, of course, lies the 
great advantage. His laundry is fitted up with all the best modern appliances, and notwithstanding the 
enormous cost of first productions. His latest acquisitions consists of the famous Hagen & Myers' 
body ironers, used to iron the bodies of shirts, of which he has secured two; also his improved. system 
for ironing collars and cuffs, including ladies' cape collars for which laundrymen have striven hard to 
secure, owing to the destructive element connected with the old system ; altogether he aims to make the 
Standard in the future what it has been in the past, the most perfectly equipped steam Laundry in the 
city. It is a well-known fact that the work from this laundry has a certain softness and ]iliability 
which is never seen in the work of other establishments. 

G. W. CRANE, 900 South Fourth Street, Engines and Boilers, Horse Powers, Etc — Mr. Crane was 
born in Ohio. In 1 882 he came here and started this business. He deals in engines and boilers, both sta- 




CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 125 

tionary and portable, horse-powers, extras for horsepowers, link-belting, drive-chain, sprocket-wheels, 
attachments and supplies, for saw mills and grain elevators, shafting, pulleys, couplings, boxes and hangers, 
mill and elevator buckets, elevator bolts, iron and wood boots; also rubber, leather and cotton belting, spiral 
conveyors, etc., steam pumps and Chicago standard scales. Mr. Crane has been associated with other 
parties in this business for a number of years prior to his commencing on his own account in 1887, and 
has a great amount of experience. Short as his time here has been he has secured a trade through this 
State, Dakota and the whole Northwest and Canada and Central Iowa, which is all the time steadily on 
the increase. He usually employs from thirty to thirty-five hands. His premises are very conveniently 
located and are quite extensive, being sixty-five feet on one street and 150 on the other. Mr. Crane is 
quite a young man and is making a brilliant success of his undertaking. 

A. L. SUMPS Lake Superior Meat Market, 117 First Street North — This is one of the best 
known markets in the city, as well as one of the oldest. It is the only lotig-established market in 
Minneapolis that has never changed its location. It was established in 1867 by the present proprietor. 
Mr. Sump has had a long and marked success. He owns the building which he occupies and which is 
fitted up with modern appliances. Probable there is no owner of a meat market in Minneapolis who 
is better posted on the wants of the people or who understands the business better than Mr. Sump. 
His trade is large among the families, hotels and restaurants. Mr. Sump personally supervises his 
business, and to this fact is due his reputation of carrying one of the finest stocks of meat in the city. 
His hams and bacon are cured'in his establishment. There is also a complete sausage equipment, and 
all kinds of sausage are manufactured. Mr. Sump was born in Germany, but has been a resident of 
this country since 1852. 

KENNEDY BROS., Mill Stuffs, Flour, Feed, Oil Meal, Baled Hay and Straw, 507 Plymouth 
Avenue — This firm was established in 1888. Their success has been marked and their trade is increasing 
rapidly from month to month. They are extensively engaged in other lines of business, also among 
which may be mentioned logging. This year they cut 1,000,000 feet and next winter they are expecting 
to cut not less than 5,000,000 feet. They also do considerable teaming about the city, and for that 
purpose employ twelve horses. They are proprietors of the valuable Kennedy farm, which is situated 
one-half mile west of the city limits. This farm was pre-empted by their father in 1854. Its increase 
in value is a marked evidence of the great increase in value of Hennepin County realty. The two 
oldest brothers were born in Aroostook County, Maine, but came here when children. Wm. Kennedy, 
the junior member of firm, was born in Minneapolis. 

CHICAGO BAKERY, R. C. Miller, Proprietor, 253 First Avenue South— Mr. Miller, of the 
Chicago Bakery, is one of the happiest instances of business ability that the city affords. Mr. Miller 
was born in Burlington, Iowa. About five years ago he established the bakery and carried it on very 
successfully until about a year ago. He then sold out, but circumstances induced him to return to his 
old stand, and he found that the business was run down almost to extinction. One may judge of the 
extent to which this running down had gone, when it is stated that upon his resuming business, the first 
day's receipts only amounted to $1.80. He has had the place handsomely re-fitted and re-furnished, 
.and the takings range from $50 to $70 a day, with increasing tendency. Twelve hands are employed, 
and there are turned out daily from 400 to 500 loaves, 60 to 100 pies, besides a host of crackers, 
cookies and other small fry, two men being constantly employed in cake-baking. Mr. Miller makes a 
specialty of German rye bread, his bakings being deservedly much liked. All his business is retail, and 
the strangest part of it is that it is all done in the store, no delivery wagon being employed e.xcept for 
the ice cream, of which Mr. Miller makes a large quantity in season. There is a nice, clean restaurant 
attached to the establishment, which is well patronized. 



126 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL LLEE INSURANCE CO., of Boston, Massachusetts, Richard 
H. Fhigg, Gen'l Agent, 310, 311 National Bank of Commerce Building— An agency for this company 

has been established in St. 
Paul for several years. It 
has now been divided so as 
to leave St. Paul the south 
half of the State, and Min- 
neapolis the north half. The 
company itself is a very old 
one, and one that has de- 
servedly gained the entire 
confidence of the public. 
It was established so far 
back as 1835. The pecu- 
liar features of the com- 
pany are that they give on 
all their T.ife and Endow- 
ment Policies cash values, 
after two payments have 
been made, as well as paid 
up values, which are larger 
than those given by any 
other company, making the 
policy more desirable as 
insurance and collateral. 
There is absolutely no spec- 
ulation in the system in 
\ogue with this company, 
each year all the surplus is 
dividedup among the policy- 
holders. The following is 
a sample of the cash and 
paid-up' values, guaranteed 
by the company and laws 
Compare these values with any company : 




of Massachusetts, and are 



the policy. 



2d.. 

3d 

4th. 

5th. 

6th. 

7th. 

bth. 

9th. 
loth, 
nth. 
I2th, 
13th. 
14th. 
15th. 



Age ok Issue, 33.— Age of 


Cash-Surr. 


Paid-up 




Value. 




\e 


$ 9690 


$ 270 


I6th. 


222.00 


610 


17th 


35>-6o 


950 


1 8th 


485.40 


1,270 


19th. 


624.10 


1,600 


20th. 


767.70 
916.70 


■.930 

2,240 


2ISt 


22d.. 


1,070.90 


2,560 


2,d. 


1,230.60 


2,870 


24th. 


'.39550 


3-170 


25th. 


1,565.10 


3.470 


26th. 


1,739.60 


3.760 


27th. 


1,918.90 


4,040 


28th. 


2,102.10 


4.320 


29th. 



Age of Maturity, 75. — Amount, $io,c 



Cash-Surr. 

Value, 
$2,289.60 
2,481.90 
2,678.60 
2,879.60 
3,085.50 
3.29570 
3,510.90 

3.731-20 
3.956-50 
4,187.50 
4,424.30 
4,667.30 
4,916.90 
5.173-40 



Paid-up 

$4,590 
4,850 

5.'io 
5.360 
5,600 
5,840 
6,070 
6,290 
6,510 
6,720 
6,930 
7,140 
7.348 
7.540 



Premium, $248.00. 

,, . Cash-Surr. 



33d. 
34th. 

3Sth. 
36th. 
37th. 
38th. 
39th. 
40th. 



W.437-70 
5,710.30 
5,992.80 
6,286.70 
6,593.80 
6,916.00 
7,257.00 
7,620.50 
8,011.30 
8,435.60 
8,901.20 
9,418.40 



*7.73° 
7,920 
8,100 
8.290 
8,480 
8,660 
8,840 
9,020 
9,210 
9,400 
9,600 
9,800 

10,000 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 127 

WEST HOTEL LIVERY, BOARDING AND SALE STABLES, W. H. McCague, 
Proprietor, 24 Fifth Street North — One of the largest livery, boarding and sale stables in Minneapolis 
is that of Mr. W. H. McCague. This stable is located at 24 Fifth Street North, and occupies two 
floors of a building 100 x 165 feet. This stable has accommodations for 128 horses. So heavy is the 
patronage that the stables are nearly always filled. For his regular livery business, he ordinarily has 
from thirty-five to forty horses. His stock of carriages includes coupes, hacks, phaetons, buggies, Eng- 
hsh carts, etc. He makes a specialty of saddle horses, and, perhaps, leads any stable in the city in this 
line. The location of this stable gives it a popularity among horse owners, and as a result Mr. Mc- 
Cague does the largest business in boarding horses of any stable in the city. Sixteen men are con- 
stantly employed. The location is especially favorable to the guests of the West Hotel, being located 
directly opposite, so that teams are very quickly summoned. An order stand is maintained at the 
hotel. This stable was established in 1882. Mr. McCague became part owner in 1885. January i, 
i88g he bought out his partner's interest and is now the sole proprietor. He is a native of Illinois. He 
came to Minneapolis in 1884. For many years he devoted his exclusive time to the operation of a 
large stock farm that he owns in Clear Lake, Minn. He now owns 900 acres there, and raises horses 
and cattle in large numbers. 

ENTERPRISE MACHINE CO., 423 and 425 Fourth Street South— The members of this 
company are Mr. G. U. Sampson, Mr. Wm. Kampflf and Mr. C. H. Sampson. It was established in 
1884 and Mr. Kampff joined in 1887. Both the Messrs. Sampson were born in the East and came here 
at the time they established this business. They do all kinds of repairing and manufacturing of special 
machinery. They employ about twenty hands, and their business is more on the outside than inside 
the city. The value of their plant is about $10,000. They have very commodious premises, 100x200 
feet, and have a good solid business, which is increasing rapidly. In addition to his connection with the 
Enterprise Machine Company, Mr. C. H. Sampson, is interested with Mr. P. J. Wright, in the same 
city, in the manufacture of the Wright Valve File and Re-seating Tool. This impliment will in a few 
minutes repair the seat of globe and angle valves, both flat and taper, without removal from the pipe. 
When the seat of a valve has become imperfect it is such a waste of steam that the cheapest plan has 
hitherto been to discard it at once and substitute a new one for it. ' Now by this machine a perfect seat 
may be made, and if the brass disc does not work satisfactorily the firm furnish a new vulcanized rubber 
disc and brass disc holder which can be placed on the old stem, and all this can be done at a trifling 
cost. It will probably not be long before every engineer in the land will be provided with one of these 
machines, and they will be almost as commonly used as a monkey wrench. 

GOETZENBERGER 6- WANGSNES, Dealers in Stoves and Hardware, House Furnishing 
Goods, Oils, Paints and Glass, 605 Cedar Avenue — One of the distinctions enjoyed by this house is that 
it is the oldest establishment of its class to be foimd on Cedar Avenue; but it must not be inferred from 
this the place is otherwise lacking in importance for the very opposite is the truth. The store is well 
stocked with goods in its line, including stoves, ranges, and house furnishing goods, general and builders' 
hardware, mechanics' ^tools and cutlery, paints, oils, glass, nails, putty, painters' and glaziers' supplies, 
etc. Tin and sheet iron work and jobbing is also done, and a general line of household tinware manu- 
factured. J.J. Goetzenberger and O. S. Wangsnes compose the firm, and they are both young men who 
went into business immediately on their arrival here six years ago. The first is a native Minnesotian 
and the second claims Wisconsin as his birth-place. The number of men employed in their establish- 
ment is an average of five. 

DORAN <s- LAMBERT, Dealers in Groceries and Provisions, Glass and Crockery Ware, 529 
Cedar Avenue — Established so lately as 1885, this grocery house has already grown to be one of the 



128 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

best patronized and most important trade emporiums in this section of the city. The proprietors of 
the store, Messrs. J. W. Doran and O. M. Lambert, devote their whole time and attention to the business, 
are both practical and experienced grocers and well acquainted in the city, the first having resided 
here the past sixteen years and the latter since 1882. They are both comparatively young men, active, 
enterprising and energetic, and they carry a line of choice, select groceries, delicacies and table 
luxuries, teas, coffees and spices, crockery and glassware, equal to every demand of their customers, 
and of such superior quality as to be unexcelled. The firm was at first Doran & McDermott, which 
condition prevailed until last year, when Mr. Lambert succeeded to the interests of the junior member 
of the original partnership. Mr. Doran is an Ohioan by birth, and Mr. Lambert was born on alien soil, 
the Dominion of Canada bemg the place of his nativity. 

JAMES ELWIN, Cigar Manufacturer, 418 Hennepin Avenue — The accompanying cut repre- 
sents one of Minneapolis' most prosperous young business men, James Elwin, the manufacturer of the 
celebrated ".411 Stock and No Style" cigars, and wholesale dealer in tobaccos at 418 Hennepin Avenue. 
Mr. Elwin has been a resident of Minneapolis about seven years, com- 
ing here from Broooklyn, N. Y. When a mere boy he embarked in the 
cigar business, beginning at the foot of the ladder. By perseverance 
and strict attention to business he has steadily worked his way up until 
he has now one of the largest factories in the city, and in the State about 
the third or fourth largest. By doing a strictly cash business he is 
enabled to make a clear Havana-filled cigar that can be sold for five 
cents, and his returns to the government show his business to have 
mci eased during the past year fully 100 per cent. His most popular 
1 igars are "All Stock and No Style" for five cents, warranted a clear 
Havana filler, and his "Elwin's Best," a lo-cent cigar, made of the finest 
and most expensive Havana tobacco that can be bought. His store, at 
418 Hennepin Avenue, also shows hiin to be one of the largest jobbers of 
tobacco in the cit) He keeps two wagons in the city and one in St. Paul to attend to his many custom- 
ers, besides hi>) force of employes under the management of Philip Duttenhoefer, an able and courteous 
gentleman. Mr. Elwin will have an exhibit at the Exposition this year, showing his whole force of manu- 
facturers at work making his famous brands of cigars, just how they are manipulated, the grade of stock 
used, and all about the production of a first-class cigar. 

MINNEAPOLIS PAPER BOX CO., Frank Heywood & Co., Proprietors, 121 and 123 
Washington Avenne North— This is the only paper box factory in Minneapolis, and it is no exaggeration 
to say that it is a most deserving and popular institution. It was founded April, 1882, by the 
present owners, and the head of the firm, Mr. Frank Heywood, became one year later a member of the 
partnership of Fisher & Heywood, who opened a similar factory in St. Paul, the location of which is now 
corner East Fifth and Robert Streets. About twenty-five hands are employed in the factory here, and 
nearly as many in the one at St. Paul. All kinds of paper boxes are made, and the best and most 
perfect machinery and equipment for the successful turning out of such articles is to be found in the 
factories. The floor-space occupied in Minneapolis alone is 12,000 square feet. The members of this 
firm are Massachusetts men and have only lived in Minnesota since they went into business here. 

WILSON 6- SULLIVAN, Livery, Sale and Boarding Stable, 20 Second Street North— No city 
in the country has more, if as many, beautiful drives as Minneapolis. As a result, the livery business is 
of enormous pro]iortions. This firm does probably the largest business of any stable in the city. It 
has reached such proportions that they have recently established a branch at 80 Ninth Street South. 




CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 129 

They keep one hundred or more horses constantly. Their stables are very commodious, the main 
stable being 50x210, two stories, and the branch 40x125. Their stock of carriages embraces coupes, 
victorias, phaetons, English dog carts, etc. They have recently purchased five new hacks. They make 
a specialty of family trade, and their stock embraces trusty family and saddle horses. The deserved 
success of their business has been the result of careful attention and thorough knowledge of the livery 
business. They employ twelve men in their two stables. They also do a very large boarding business, 
and their stables are the home of many of the horses of our professional and business men. In addition 
to the livery business they carry on a large sale business. They supply by contract all the street rail- 
ways of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth. About two thousand head of horses are annually handled. 
.\[r. M. D. Wilson established this business in 1879. He is a native of La Porte, Ind., and has been in 
the livery business nearly all his life. Mr. E. E. Sullivan is also a native Indianian, and became a 
liartner November ist, 1888, coming here from Cokeville, Wyoming. 

KINNE &> BOYD TRANSFER COMPANY, 47 Washington Avenue South— In an) branch 
of business reliability and honesty are prims requisites in building up a business and becoming 

established in a citv as desir- 



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and Boyd here built up their 
large transfer business on 
this principle in a year and 
a half, and have proved its 
truth. They own first-class 
teams and outfits and employ 
none but reliable men, who 
must come recommended for 
honesty and carefulness, and 
by so doing they make their 
patrons feel that an order left 
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properly and as ordered. The business has increased from one team to sixteen horses, and more will 
be added soon. They attend to all kinds of transferring, making a specialty of moving household goods. 
They manage a wood yard at 3136 First Avenue South, where are located their barns for the accommoda- 
tion of their teams and wagons. By running regular trips twice daily they can carry parcels cheaper 
than regular rates. Their office, with telephone connection, is at 47 Washington Avenue South, where 
they will attend to all business entrusted them. 

HARRISONS Variety Store, in Nicollet Avenue and 2605-2607 Stevens Avenue — This repre- 
sentative house was established by Mr. Harrison, the present proprietor, in 1884. The original house 
was opened at 2605 and 2607 Stevens Avenue, where he still continues, and where the headquarters are 
still located. The branch, at 11 1 Nicollet Avenue, was opened only last June, but is already receiving 
a good patronage. A stock of goods is carried in the three stores aggregating $26,000 in value, and 
the annual amount of trade is very large, extending throughout the city generally. An ample force of 
people is employed in the various branches of the business, and is now looked upon as one of the most 
thriving concerns in the Flour City. Mr. Harrison sells his goods for cash at bottom prices, and sells 
both on the installment plan and for cash, and can always offer bargains in crockery, glassware, hard- 
ware, stoves, ranges, furniture and carpets, besides an endless variety of goods in the five and ten- 
cent line, for which branch he has special counters. .Mr. Harrison in a native of Clarke County, 



130 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

Illinois, and has now been a resident of Minneapolis for some years, and has the utmost faith in the future 
of the city and the Northwest generally. All in all, this is a standard house and one well worthy of the 
large patronage it is receiving. 

T//£ GRAND OPERA HOUSE, J. F. Conklin, Manager— This very fine building was erected 
by a syndicate of wealthy Minneapolis gentlemen. The interior of the house is handsomely decorated 

and it is one of the most 
beautiful and at the same 
time most comfortable 
houses in the country. 
This is especially true 
since its elaborate redec- 
orating and remodeling 
during the present sum- 
mer by Mr. J. S. Brad- 
street, whose taste in this 
instance marks him a 
master-hand at his work, 
and old patrons of the 
house will hardly recog- 
nize the place. It is 
certainly now one of the 
most beautiful interiors 
west of New York. 
The seating capacity is 
1,400. Mr. Oscar Cobb 
was the architect and 
the building in every re- 
spect does him credit. 
The i)ublic, and particu- 
larly the lovers of the 
drama, are much in- 
debted to the very able 
manager, Mr. J. F. Conk- 
lin, for the manner in 
wjiich he has conducted 
the business entrusted to 
to him. In inducing him 
to take the office upon 
himself the syndicate dis- 
played much sound judgment, for verily he is the right man in the right place. No paltry performance 
has'ever been allowed to lower the reputation of this house. The highest class of entertainment is what 
Mr. Conklin will ever permit to be given there, and the fact that a play is going to be represented at the 
Grand is sufficient recommendation of its quality and merits. Mr. Conklin was formerly assistant 
manager of the Academy of Music, and having exquisite taste as a musician would allow only the best 
class of performance. He has adopted the same plan since he has had the management of the Grand 




CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. ' 131 

Opera House and with the happiest results, as already indicated. He also manages the affairs of the whole 
Syndicate Block. Mr. Charles Parker fills the onerous position of treasurer of the house and in that 
capacity has distinguished himself by the admirable manner in which he has conducted the duties of 
his office. 

NORTHWESTERN MARBLE WORKS, J. M. Donlin & Co., no Fourth Street South— This 
is a standard business in this line, and was established by Edward Donlin, the firm as now composed 
being a successor to him. It is one of the oldest establishments in its line in the city, and they now do 
one of the best trades in the line of marble monuments, gravestones and other memorial work. The 
firm make a specialty of monumental work, and many specimens of their taste in this line can be seen 
in their rooms and through our finest cemeteries. The prices of J. M.jDonlin & Co.,;for good work, are 
as low as can be quoted, and they have done much fine work for some of the most prominent people in 
Minneapolis and throughout the Northwest. 

WARREN HILL, Manufacturing Chemist and Perfumer, 609 First Avenue South— That Mr. 
Hill is a skillful chemist in this department no one will question, after- a visit to his establishment and a 
trial of his exquisite goods. He has ample and very complete facilities for the 
manufacture of handkerchief extracts, toilet waters, sachet powders, and in fact 
every thing in his special line. One of the most popular and pleasing odors made 
by Mr. Hill is the famous Nile Lily, which now has an immense sale, as also the 
Nile Lily toilet soap, which is without an equal for purity and delicacy of perfume. 
Beside the Nile Lily Mr. Hill also makes a full line of all the standard and popular 
odors, and is the only manufacturer of the kind in the Northwest. Dealers can 
rely on getting as fine goods, and at as low prices here, as from any manu- 
facturer in the United States. These perfumes now have an extensive sale 
from this point to the Pacific Coast, besides in a large radius both North 
and Soutli, and are considered by dealers as among the very best on the 
market. Mr. Hill has been in the business since 1882, and was originally 
from the East, corning here from Boston, Mass. A price list for any goods 
in his line will be cheerfuHy furnished on application. 

S. OVERMIRE, Real Estate and Loans, 255 Temple Court — Mr. Overmire is a long experi- 
enced operator in real estate, having been in the business for upwards of fifteen years. He was formerly 
in Decatur, 111. He came to this city in 1882, and carried on business with a partner, Mr. Pearson, 
under the firm name of Pearson & Overmire for about three years; since then Mr. Overmire has been 
conducting the business alone. He bandies all kinds of business property, suburban and acre lots and 
farm property in this State and Dakota, also Lake Minnehaha property. The firm platted two addi- 
tions in the city — Nicollet and Illinois additions. Mr. Overmire handles his own property and also the 
property of others on commission. He has always done a general real estate business from the start. 
He also does loaning on real estate security to some extent. Mr. Overmire now has an extensive list 
of properties of all kinds, and his long experience in the business and fair dealing have secured him 
the confidence of a large circle of friends. 

C. B. DICKENS, Dealer in Horses, 417 and 419 First Avenue North — This gentleman came to 
Minneapolis in 1881, and established the West House Stables. In 1887 he sold out his interest, and in 
1888 he built his present commodious stable, and entered extensively into the sale business. In this 
venture he has been successful. Since coming to Minneapolis he has sold upwards of 4,500 horses. 
He handles all classes of horses and mules, and makes a specialty of fine stock. He has obtained a 




132 JtESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

high reputation for honorable dealings, and his references comprise the leading business men of Min- 
neapolis. He guarantees every animal sold as represented. His capital is ample, and he is enabled, 
when necessary, to advance money on stock. He boards also many horses. He also has the contract 
to convey all the mails to and from the post-office of this city. He is a native of Kdgar County, 111 
He has been engaged in the horse business for over twenty years. 

P. G. HANSON, Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Meat Market 404, (Irocery 406, Second 
Avenue South — The business success of this gentleman is a most striking example of what energy and 
strict attention to business will accomplish. Commencing business in 1877 with a capital of but $30, 
and a high reputation for honesty, Mr. Hanson so availed himself of circumstances that he is now 
doing a business of $100,000 annually. His business gives employment to from fourteen to seventeen 
hands. Sixteen are required to attend to the large order business. He has been in his present location 
for three years. For nine years he was at 1304 Fifth Street South. Here he occupied a small store, 
and at the outset of business, he and his brother with no teams, comprised the entire* force. At his 
present location he occupies the first floor and basement of a building 44x80. One-half the building is 
devoted to his grocery business, where he carries a very complete stock of staple and fancy groceries, 
dairy products, fruits and confectionery. To make his establishment even more complete he, in 1887, 
purchased the meat market adjoining his grocery establishment. Here is to be found one of the most 
complete markets in the city. All kinds of meat, fish, oysters, game in season, are sold. Mr. Hanson's 
jrade is of a permanent character. He believes in the Golden Rule in business as well as in other 
walks of life. Mr. Hanson wa^ born in New York City, but his boyhood was passed on a farm in the 
"Nutmeg" State. He has been a resident of Minneapolis since 1877. His brother grocers honored 
him in 1888, by electing him President of the RetailGrocers' Association for that year. 

NORTHWESTERN MEAT MARKET, Wm. H. Wittey, Proprietor, 214 Fifteenth Street 
South — This popular market is conducted by a man who thoroughly understands the meat business. 
Mr. Wittey established this market in 1883, coming here from Chicago, where he had been engaged in 
the same business. Mr. Wittey is a veteran in the business and has been in it twenty-nine years. 
His success in Minneapolis has been marked, and he is now doing nearly $2,000 jier month business. 
This spring numerous improvements have been made, and there is not now a neater or more orderly 
market in the city. Three men and three teams are given employment. Mr. Wittey caters entirely to 
family trade and carries only the better grades of meat, such as his trade reijuires. He carries in stock 
fish, ham, bacon, sausage, game and poultry in season. 

SIMPSON 6- HENDERSON, Men's Furnishing Goods, 309 Nicollet Avenue— The firm of 
Simpson & Henderson, dealers in men's furnishing goods, now located at 309 Nicollet Avenue, next 
door to the Loan and Trust Building, is the oldest firm in the Northwest, and, perhaps, the best known 
in the State of Minnesota. They started in business seventeen years ago under the name of Fuller & 
Simpson. They carried on the business until the year 1881, when R. R. Henderson purchased the 
interest of Mr. C. A. Fuller. The style of the firm since has been Simpson & Henderson. Their 
business has grown as the city has developed, and no establishment anywhere has a better record. 
They have the best wishes and patronage of this community, and their word is as good as their 
bond. Messrs. R. Dunlap & Co., the famous hat manufacturers, selected Simpson & Henderson as 
their sole agents to sell and control their hats in this city. They handle the finest grades of all goods 
in their line. Fisk, Clark & Flagg's neckwear, gloves, suspenders, and Holroyd's underwear, besides a 
large line manufactured in this and foreign countries. They are the only manufacturers of chamois 
underwear and men's chest protectors in the Northwest, and it is said by importers of chamois skins 
that they are the largest manufacturers west of the Alleghany Mountains. Their goods in this line are 



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CITY OF MINXEAPOLIS. ■ 133 

known from Maine to California, as they ship to all the leading cities in the Union. Besides their 
men's furnishing business, they are the proprietors of one of the largest and best laundries in the city. 
They do good work, and their wagons, collecting laundry work, go to every street and number in the 
city. They take great pride in their business, and as citizens and manufacturers Simpson & Henderson 
are known as pushing, progressive men, and take a great interest in and give a hand to every project 
that develops the city in which they have lived so long. 

BOWEN'S Livery and Boarding Stable, No. 7 Royalston A\ 
ducted for some years. Mr. F R Wmston w i^ 1 1 >\ lu tm |. i t«<i > 
of Jamestown, N.Y., and his son, _ _ 

Mr. G. C. Bowen, leased this 
stable. Mr. A. J. Bowen was 
for many years engaged in cai 
riage making in the city of 
Jamestown. His son has been 
in the livery business all of his 
life and thoroughly understands 
all departments of it. Then 
stable is one of the neatest and 
most commodious in the cit\ 
The main stable is two stories 
high and 24x146 feet. The 1 
is sixty feet long and two stories 
high. The equipment is entirely 
new and first-class throughout 
Their stock of carriages includes 
hacks, phaetons, single and dou 
ble rigs. Including boarders 
they now care for thirty-three 
horses and are prepared to take 
more. To owners of horses 
they invite inspection of then 
stable and guarantee first-class 
treatment of horses and cai 
liages. A competent force of 
men are employed. They also 
do horse-clipping by power. 

Their intention is to have the best stable in their part of the cit 
appearance of their -stable, their expectations will be fulfilled. 

MIDDLEMIST c- EARLE, Dealers in Furnaces, Stoves, Ranges, Etc., 109 Nicollet Avenue— 
This old land-mark among the business houses of the Flower City is one of the very oldest in the city, 
having been established so far back in the history of MinneapoHs as 1856. Its originator was Charles 
F. Lucas. In 1866 it became Lucas Bros., in 1877 it changed to John T. Lucas, and in 1888 became 
Middlemist & Earle, this firm purchasing the business at that time. Mr. Middlemist was connected 
with the house for eighteen years prior to the time of becoming one of the proprietors of present firm, 
as foreman in charge of the manufacturing department of the house. Fifteen people are employed. 




id iudging from the present 




134 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. 

A stock of $16,000 to $18,000 is carried, and a yearly trade done aggregating from $75,000 to $80,000. 
which extends all over the city and the Northwest generally. A specialty is made of hot air furnaces, steel 
ranges and mill work. Boynton's celebrated furnaces are carried, and also Gold Coin and Born's steel 
plate French ranges, and they are also extensive manufacturers of sheet iron and tin work. Mr. Mid- 
dlemist is a native of Michigan and Mr. Earle of Massachusetts, the former comingjhere in 187 1 and the 
latter about 1877. 

BADGER &- SA U'TELLE, Real Estate and Loan, 535 I'emple Court— We take pleasure in 
calling the attention of the reader to one of our oldest and most reliable real estate firms, that of 
Badger & Sawtelle (Walter I,. Badger and J. P. Sawtelle), who are 
located at 535 Temple Court. Mr. Badger is an old resident and 
has been in the real estate business since 1882. Mr. Sawtelle 
came here from New York City about four years ago and engaged 
ui the real estate business. His large acquaintance throughout 
the East among capitalists, with Mr. Badger's large acquaintance 
in the city as well as in the West, enables them to handle real 
estate to the advantage of all parties, either buying or selling. 
They buy or sell on commission or joint accounts. They are 
exclusive agents for several hundred thousand dollars worth of 
choice city property, besides other property throughout Min- 
nesota and Dakota. They invite correspondence and will 
send list of references upon application. 

THOMPSON &- NORBY, Cash Grocers, 265 Cedar Avenue South— This retail grocery house 
was founded in 1881 by T. J. Anderson, the stock and business becoming the property of the present 
proprietors the past fall, when they bought Mr. Anderson out. They are both young, active business 
men, and natives of Norway, and have lived in Minneapolis about eight years. Personally, they are 
known as T. Thompson and John A. Norby, and the latter has been connected with the house almost 
from its earliest opening. The stock kept by the firm is a very good and strictly first-class one in 
every way, and they sell at reasonable and current prices — facts which account in a great measure for 
the rapid advancement of the trade of the house since its management and control passed into their 
enterprising hands. 

E R WINSTON, ^Proprietor Oak Lake Livery and Boarding Stable, 18 Royalston A\enue — 
This gentleman has been identified with the livery interests of this city for about three years. For two 
and a half years he was located at No. 7 Royalston Avenue. His present stable is three stories high 
50 X 100 feet in area. His stock is first-class; including boarders, he has now thirty-five horses. His 
equipment is first-class and comprises three hacks and a complete stock of single and double rigs. He 
caters to family trade, and at all times is ready to furnish family driving horses. He also makes a 
specialty"of saddlers. Mr. Winston has done a constantly increasing trade, and now does easily the 
largest business in his part of the city. Three men are given constant employment. Mr. Winston 
came here twenty-two years ago from Illinois, his native state. His long residence here lias built up for 
him an enviable reputation and he is justly proud of his business success. 

M. H. CRITTENDEN, Manufacturer of Ornamental Sheet Metal Work for Buildings, 704-706 
South Fifth Street. Mr. Crittenden is a native of Michigan, and has been in this business for upwards 
of twenty-five years. He manufactures all kinds of roofing in pitch and gravel, tin, iron, metal, shingle, 
slate and bodine; also every description of ornamental metal work for buildings. His specialty is 



CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 135 

ornamental copper work. He has lately manufactured a copper figure of Justice, twelve feet high, for 
the Court House at Mankato, which is a very excellent piece of workmanship in every respect. His 
trade extends all over the whole Northwest and is steadily on the increase. His workshops cover 
nearly the whole of a quarter-acre of ground and are fitted with the best plant in the Northwest. He 
employs from forty to sixty-five hands, nearly all of whom are the very best skilled mechanics. -Mr. 
Crittenden gives his work the benefit of a personal supervision and that no doubt reflects a benefit upon 
himself by securing the confidence of all who have- occasion to employ his talent. 

TIf£ BIJOU OPERA HOUSE— \:\\\i popular house, formqrly known as the People's Theatre, 
has been auspiciously opened under its new management, under a new name. The whole of the interior 

of the theatre 
has been ren- 
ovated and 
cleaned during 
the summer. 
The hangings 
and dra|)eries 
h a \- e been 
changed, and 
the theatre 
looks as fresh 
a n d n e w a s 
though it had 
just been open- 
ed for the first 
time. The lob- 
by has been en- 
id is practically 
The finishings are in tlie 
(Jueen .\nne style, while the floor has been 
fleshly tiled and the walls prettily decor- 
ated with pictures appropriate to the 
Thespian ait. The Bijou, under its former manage- 
ment, has always been one of the favorite resorts in 
the city, and the opening now was a" good omen for 
its continued popularity. Heretofore it has been 
run as a stock company theater at popular prices, but 
from now on nothing but traveling attractions will be placed upon the boards, the company changing every 
week, and the prices remaining at the same figures as they always have been. The new lessee and manager 
is Jacob Litt, the well-known theatrical man of Milwaukee. Frank L. Bixby will be the local business[man- 
ager and Theo. L. Hays, the son of the proprietor of the house, treasurer. This house has a seating 
capacity of about 2,000, and is one of the most comfortable and safest houses in the Northwest. Popu- 
lar prices reign here and the highest class of opera, tragedy and comedy are placed before the people at 
prices enabling the masses to see the popular plays of the day. Jacob Litt, the lessee, is too well known to 
need comment, and Frank L. Bixby is about eipially well known in his line as a peculiarly successful man 
at the helm, while Theo. L. Hays comes in for his full share in the success of the house. 




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EDSTEN c^' FOSS, Real Estate, Insurance, Loans and Steamshii) Line Agency, 40S Cedar 
Avenue — The senior member of this firm is an old citizen of Minneapolis, having come here twenty- 
two years ago from Chicago. In the fall of 1888 he associated with himself Adolph Edsten (his son) 
and Christian Foss, and established the firm of Edsten & Foss. This firm carry on an extensive 
business. They operate heavily in real estate in South Minneapolis, and have land for sale in 
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota and Iowa. They buy and sell on commission. They are prepared to 
make loans at all times on real estate. They collect rents and attend to any kind of real estate sales. 
Mr. Adolph Edsten is a notary public. Among insurance companies they represent the "Syndicate," 
"Hekla " and "North British and Mercantile" companies. They sell tickets to and from Europe on all 
first class lines. Mr. A. H. Edsten is a iirominent citizen of South Minneapolis, and at one time was 
alderman from the Teiitli Ward. The members of the firm are all natives of Norway. 




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Plymouth Boot and Slioe HouHC 113 

Pratt, R. L ^9 

Pratt & Cone ...'."!.!.'!! loo 

Reeves. C. J IOg 

Eeeslund, E 116 

Red Wlns-Shebovgan Lime Co 116 

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Roeller, M 0.1 

Roesel. Adam 100 

Rood & Erickson 107 

Rueg, A. B no 

Rugg.B.I 84 

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Safety Deposit Vaults. Minnesota Loan and Trust Co Ill 

Seandia Bank of Minnesota .... 93 

Scandia Furniture Store loa 

School of Languages 118 

Seeley, L C, & Co " 76 

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Sexton & Raftery .,1 ■ 

Sexton & Welsh -r, 

Sherman, S. J sm 

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Williams. .TnshiKi 70 

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City of Minneapolis ." Fninlixpiece. 

On Nicollet Avenue 7 

Exposition Building 10 

Lake Mtnnetonka— Map 12 

"Soo Line"— Map 14 

Residence of E. A. Merrill 17 

Syndicate Block ID 

Bank of Minneapolis 22 

Artesian Well, Central Park 23 

At the Soldiers" Home 25 

Lumber Exchange 2fi 

Harris' Theatre 27 

Turn Hall 29 

Swedish Christian Mission Church 31 

Entrances to Public Library. Citv Hall and Court House 33 

Street Scenes 35 

TheStryker Seminary 37 

Globe Building 3S 

Union League Building 39 

Lake Harriet Pavilion 40 

Emanuel Baptist Church 42 

Scene in Central Park . 43 

Looking Down Forty-third Street to Lake llm 11. ■! 43 

University of Minnesota Buildings 44 

Washington Park 4fi 

Hennepin Avenue 47 



Page. 

Park Boulevard at Forty-second Street 48 

Prospect Park Oliservatory 50 

Nicollet Avenue 51 

Double Roadway, Park Boulevard .52 

Interior of First Baptist Church 53 

The Washburne Home 54 

New Court House 65 

TheWestHotel 66 

Stone Arch Bridffe, Minneapolis 69 

Osakis— St. P., M. & M. U'y 75 

Apostle Islands, Lake Superior 78 

Lake Carlos— St. P., M. & M. R'y 83 

Hotel St. Louis, Lake Minnetonka 85 

Lake Pepin, on Line of C, M. & St. P. R'v 92 

Baytield, on Line of C, St. P.. M. & O. R'v 95 

The Lotus and City of St. Louis, Lake Mlunetonk:i 99 

Hotel St. Louis, on Line of C. M. A St. P. By 102 

Westward Ho! C. St. P., M. &0. R'y 106 

Lake Minnetonka— St. P., M. & M. R'v 109 

Pleasant Valley and Sugar Loaf, Winona. Minn 114 

Crane Island 119 

Missis.sippi River. Below Red Wing 124 

National Bank of Commerce Building 126 

Fort Snellingand the Upper Mississippi. 130 

Lake L'Homme Dleu— St. P.. M. & M. R'y 133 

Mississippi River. Below Wiuona—C, M. <t St. P. Rv 135 



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BANK CHECKS, LETTER HEADS, TITLE PAGES, PROGRAM- 
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MOST ARTISTIC EFFECTS. 

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The Greal FUei Problei|t Solvet) at: Lasi. 



: .nanufacturcr of the Noitliwe 
iieious tests of this fuel, made u 
; practical men the superiority : 



uccessfiilly cDiiipete witli the hereto- 
very possible condition, have demon- 
noray of Petrole fuel over any knov 



oil is obtained and much less storage space is required. 



FETROLE, the wonderful invention, enables 
fore more fortunate resident of the East. I 
strated to the entire satisfaction of scientific : 
fuel; its advantages over coal are very important, be 

It also renders unnecessary most of the labor in handling coal and ashes. We utilize, as fuel, materials vifhich heretofore hav 
been treated as a useless waste, such as coal screenings, sawdust, lignite, peat, straw, etc., etc. These can be used with our 
Petrole Compound wherever any known fuel is burnetl for heating and manufacturing purposes, and can be j^rofitably made in 
every county in America, with a remarkably small investment for machinery, etc. 

This enterprise has commended itself to the leading capitalists wherever introduced, the interests of the company in 
the State of Minnesota being controlled and managed by well-known and representative citizens of Minneapolis, St. Paul and 
Duluth, who are now erecting extensive factories for its immediate production in their respective cities, and are now prepared 
to negotiate for the formation of local organizations throughout this State for its manufacture. 

The cost of a complete outfit of machinery, exclusive of power, with a capacity of from 75 to 100 tons per day, is but 
$3,000. A plant with capacity of 50 tons daily will cost but $2,000. 

Simple and inexpensive machinery will be furnished, enabling farmers and manufacturers to produce Petrole fuel for 
private use. 

The Fuel Patents Co. has secured the sole rights of all the patents and machinery for Minnesota, and guarantees the 
validity of all the patents and processes. 

The fuel can be produced and sold at a net profit of fully $1.50 per ton, giving the consumer the best fuel in the world 

at a saving of fully 25 per cent, over any known fuel. It has been burned here by thousands, and we have enough orders now 

on hand to keep the works here, in Duluth and St. Paul busy for months, besides holding many large orders from adjacent States. 

We invite you to come here, when we will furnish all information desired ; also, giving you an opportuiiity of seeinn- 

the fuel made, bemg satisfied we can show you the best investment offered in .\merica. 

A plant of a loo-tons daily capacity will earn $50,000 a year. 

We append statement of tests, made in several cities, showing the value of Petrole fuel as compared with the best 
bituminous coal, to all of whom we refer. 

P. H. KELLY MERCANTILE CO., St. Paul. HOLMES HOTEL. Minneapolis. NEWS OFFICE. Duluth. 

OHALKER'S STONE 'WORKS. Minneapolis. STEAMER ' BARKER." Duluth. 

Applications arc coming in from all parts of the State, so we advise proni]it 3«.tii>n. .\waiting your pleasure, 
\\e are respectfully yours, WALTER J. BALLARD, President 

MAX NIRDLINGER, Vice-Pres't and Patentee 
HENRY F. LEOPOLD. Manager. 

Main Office, 406 Lumber Exchange; Works, Pifth Street and Second Avenue N. E., Minneapolis, Minn. 



CLIPPINGS KROM THE PRESS. 



THE NEW FUEL. 



A Test of Petrole To-Day- 

iFrom Minneapolii 






and the n 

in fact, anything that wi 
used are oil and petrole 
comparatively odorless ai 

adapted to the wants of t 



oor ahove by a pocke 
i deposited into the 



el, Petrole, ' 
ot of Laure 
Nirdlinger 



Th 



Thi! 



tsconslitute the fuel Petroh 
e Dakota farmer by using 
is of manufacture is compar 
, and together with the saw 



c only other ingredients 

waste of the still, and is 

ther of the 



ignite coal a< 
tively simple, 
lust, or what 



oil and petrol us 
ng machine, 'xhi: 



tionable refuse. 



s. occurred a 
The test wa 



;st, and four hundred {400) incandescent lamps a 
; freely, makes an intense heat, is clean and co 
d burns without leaving clinkers or other obit 



A GOOD TEST. 

[From Duluth Tribune May 15, 18 
■ing is the statement of the engineei 
erln regard to their test of the Pet 



Fuel Company— We 



These machines c: 
: shipped like bricks, 
umble them. A mat 



rfori 



tint of rough hi 
aking this egg 



Many prominent manufa 
eluding C. A. Pillsbury, an 

hat is called an evaporated 
mat Board of Engineers, 
lard, E. E. Steele, the vice-presid 
(e of "The Engineer," of Chicago 
: made under the Holmes' boilers, 
igineer, run his boilers for one hoi 
liich take eighty pounds of coal f< 



ght at the Hoh 
and will be con. 
McMillan, the 



used 300 pounds of Petro 
ng from 50 to 70 pounds 



a slight alti 



wecould hav 
ration of the 



: better results from your fuel with 
We find that it gave a minimum 
great saving in handling of the 



R. E. Patterson, En£:in 




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Managing Editor. 



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the third floor to engraving and etching, the fourth to photo printing. The whole will be 
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